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smugly

adv

Etymology

From smug + -ly.

  1. derived from *smeugan✻ — “to crawl, creep”
  2. derived from smuk — “lithe, delicate, neat, trim”
  3. borrowed from smuk — “pretty”
  4. suffixed as smugly — “smug + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a self-satisfied manner.

    • He was smirking smugly at us.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at smugly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at smugly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at smugly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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