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smugger | smudger |

As an adjective smugger

is (smug).

As a noun smudger is

one who, or that which, smudges.

smugger

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (smug)

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    smug

    English

    Adjective

    (smugger)
  • Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.
    • Kate looked extremely smug this morning.
  • (obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
    • They be so smug and smooth.
  • * De Quincey
    • the smug and scanty draperies of his style
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • A young, smug , handsome holiness has no fellow.

    Synonyms

    * self-satisfied * complacent

    Derived terms

    * smugly * smugness

    Verb

    (smugg)
  • (obsolete) To make smug, or spruce.
  • * Dryton
    • Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair.
    (Webster 1913)

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    smudger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, smudges.
  • * 1964 , William Wasserstrom, Civil Liberties and the Arts: Selections from Twice a Year, 1938-48 (page 230)
    • Servile smudgers of history, prattling about an Emil Ludwig and a Thomas Mann season — meaning the Weimar period — as if it had produced me and as if I had used the Republic for a background!
  • * 2002 , David Bergsland, Introduction to Digital Publishing (page 147)
    • The tools can get rather exotic - spinners, rubber stamps, airbrush, smudgers , and so on.