Smugged vs Smuggled - What's the difference?
smugged | smuggled |
(smug)
Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.
(obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* De Quincey
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) To make smug, or spruce.
* Dryton
(smuggle)
(intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
To bring in surreptitiously
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(slang) To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.
As verbs the difference between smugged and smuggled
is that smugged is (smug) while smuggled is (smuggle).smugged
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Verb
(head)smug
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Adjective
(smugger)- Kate looked extremely smug this morning.
- They be so smug and smooth.
- the smug and scanty draperies of his style
- A young, smug , handsome holiness has no fellow.
Synonyms
* self-satisfied * complacentDerived terms
* smugly * smugnessVerb
(smugg)- Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair.
External links
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* *smuggled
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Verb
(head)smuggle
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Verb
(wikipedia smuggle) (smuggl)- While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.