smug

English

Etymology

From Middle Low German smuk (“neat, trim, spruce, elegant, fair”), from Middle High German gesmuc (“ornament”), from smücken (“to ornament, adorn, originally to dress”), a secondary form of Middle High German smiegen (“to creep into, hence to put on (a garment)”); see smock.

Pronunciation

• enPR: smŭg, IPA: /smʌɡ/, SAMPA: /smVg/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Adjective

smug (comparative smugger, superlative smuggest)

1. Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.

   Kate looked extremely smug this morning.

Synonyms

• self-satisfied
• complacent

Derived terms

• smugly
• smugness

Translations

Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Catalan: ufà (ca), petulant (ca) Czech: nafoukaný (cs) m., nafoukaná (cs) f., nafoukaní (cs) pl. Dutch: zelfingenomen (nl) Finnish: omahyväinen (fi), itseriittoinen (fi), itsetyytyväinen (fi) French: suffisant (fr) German: blasiert (de), eingebildet (de), selbstgefällig (de), blasiert (de), süffisant (de) Greek: αυτάρεσκος (el) (aftáreskos) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: önelégült (hu)

Italian: compiaciuto (it) m., autocompiaciuto (it) m. Japanese: Japanese: 独り善がり (ja) (ひとりよがり, hitoriyogari) Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: selvgod Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Punjabi: ਆਪਣੇ ਆਪ ਵਿੱਚ ਮਸਤ, ਮਨਮੌਜੀ Russian: самодовольный (ru) Slovak: nafúkaný (sk) m., nafúkaná (sk) f., nafúkaní (sk) pl. Spanish: ufano (es), engreído (es), petulante (es) Swedish: självgod (sv)

External links

• smug in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• smug in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• gums
• mugs