Smirting vs Smarting - What's the difference?
smirting | smarting |
Painful, sore.
(figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.
A sensation that smarts or stings.
* (Thomas Halyburton)
As verbs the difference between smirting and smarting
is that smirting is while smarting is .As an adjective smarting is
painful, sore.As a noun smarting is
a sensation that smarts or stings.smarting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Strong they are; for they trample upon our light, the penalties of laws divine and human; yea, and the smartings of our own conscience.