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aftersmile

noun

Etymology

From after- + smile.

  1. derived from *smey-✻ — “to laugh, be glad, wonder”
  2. derived from *smilāną✻ — “to smile”
  3. derived from *smilēn✻
  4. derived from smielēn
  5. derived from smielen
  6. derived from *smîlen✻ — “to smile”
  7. inherited from smilen — “to smile”
  8. formed as aftersmile — “after- + smile”

Definitions

  1. A smile that follows something.

    • […] there were funerals as the result of a holy effort (for holy effort still we avow it to have been, and the aftersmile of God hath proved it so).
    • No night drops down upon the troubled breast, / When heaven’s aftersmile, earth’s teardrops gain, / And mother finds her home and far-off rest.
    • Smiling with imperturbable tenderness, Mrs. Selborne thrust out her heavy legs slowly to swell with warm ripe smack his gift of flowered green-silk garters. Wetting his thumb with sly thin aftersmile, he told.

  2. A facial expression that follows a smile.

    • It made her smile, just a little one, and that was good, but the smile got switched off pretty soon and somehow that made it worse, because there was such a contrast in her face between smile and aftersmile.

  3. Following a smile.

    • The smile was gone, but the face still had an aftersmile glow on it;

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for aftersmile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA