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Smirk vs Mirk - What's the difference?

smirk | mirk |

As nouns the difference between smirk and mirk

is that smirk is an uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied or scornful while mirk is .

As verbs the difference between smirk and mirk

is that smirk is to smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous while mirk is .

As adjectives the difference between smirk and mirk

is that smirk is (obsolete) smart; spruce; affected; simpering while mirk is .

smirk

English

(wikipedia smirk)

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied or scornful.
  • A forced or affected smile; a simper.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered.

    Derived terms

    * smirker * smirkily * smirkingly * smirky

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous.

    • Synonyms

    * simper * shit-eating grin (vulgar)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) smart; spruce; affected; simpering
  • * Spenser
    • So smirk , so smooth.

    mirk

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • * 1899 , , Grey Weather , 2008, page 4,
    • The thickness of mirk is bad enough, but the thickness of white, illimitable ether is worse a thousandfold, for it closes the eye and mazes the wits.
  • * 1900 , , The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay , 2008, page 18,
    • Outside the chapel in the weeping mirk a squire held his shield, another his helm, a groom walked his horse.
  • * 1900 , , The Great Boer War , 2010, unnumbered page,
    • The English cries of the soldiers were answered in English by the Boers, and slouch hat or helmet dimly seen in the mirk was the only badge of friend or foe.
  • * 2011 , Douglas Watt, Testament of a Witch , page 178,
    • She disappeared into the gathering mirk .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1903 , J. Vinton Webster, Augusta: A Drama in Four Acts , Act 4, Scene 1, 2004, page 121,
    • And there they lay so near his little heart, / With whispering of things that happened not, / Until the serpent green had mirked / His manly vision in a way that lost / The anchorage of balanced sanity.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • * , The Scottish History of James the Fourth'', Act 5, Chorus 6, Norman Sanders (editor), 1973, ''The Revels Plays: James the Fourth , page 128,
    • What gars this din of mirk and baleful harm, / Where everywean is all betaint with bloud?
  • * 1809 , , Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm'', 1834, ''The Works of Lord Byron , Volume 7, page 311,
    • Chill and mirk is the nightly blast, / Where Pindus' mountains rise, / And angry clouds are pouring fast / The vengeance of the skies.
  • * 1823 , , Ringan Gilhaize: Or, The Covenanters , Volume 1, page 95,
    • It was by this time the mirkest of the gloaming, for they had purposely tarried on the journey that they might enter Edinburgh at dusk.
  • * 1887 , '', from ''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables ,
    • It's a lang, laigh, mirk chalmer, perishin' cauld in winter, an' no very dry even in the tap o' the simmer, for the manse stands near the burn.

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