Smug

Definition: Smug

Smug

Adjective

1. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "smug" was first used: 1551. (references)

Slang in 1811

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Synonym: Smug

Affectation

Stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental.

Crosswords: Smug

Manx (blubber of jellyfish, catarrh, mucus, snot, spit, spittle), Scottish (phlegm, snot, spittle).

You're so smug and self-satisfied, Doctor (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

They were probably sitting in here, looking all smug and shiny until we walked in. Now they're a little less smug and shiny and I just think that's cool, don't you (The General's Daughter; writing credit: Christopher Bertolini)

Don't be smug Bronx (Gargoyles; writing credit: Heiko Schier)

I want to see that smug old bastard gutted (The Cincinnati Kid; writing credit: Richard Jessup; Ring Lardner Jr.)

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Books

• The smug minority (reference)

• The smug theology (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expression using "smug": smug person. Additional references.

Albanian

i vetëkënaqur (complacent, coxcombical, egotist, fatuous, jaunty, self sufficient, self-righteous, self-satisfied), i mbajtur (offish, reasonable, self-collected, sleek). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معتد بنفسه (uppish), ‏معجب بنفسه (conceited, overbearing, overweening, self-important, vain), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed), ‏راض عن نفسه (complacent, pi, puffed up, self-complacent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

самодоволен (airy, bighead, cock-a-hoop, complacent, jaunty, self-righteous, self-satisfied), спретнат (dapper, dinky, prim, rakish, sailorly, smart, snug, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed). (various references)

Chinese 

踌躇满志. (various references)

Czech

samolibý (overweening, self-satisfied), domýšlivý (arrogant, assuming, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, perky, pretentious, small beer, snotty, uppish, upstage, vain), arogantní (arrogant, bigheaded, frosted, overbearing, self confident, snotty, supercilious, uppish). (various references)

Farsi 

کوته نظر (Hidebound, Lowminded, Parochial), تمیزکردن سروصورت دادن به , خودبین (Arrogant, Egocentric, Presumptuous, Vain), ازخودراضی (Cocky, Overbearing), ابرومند (Honorable, Respectable, Respectful, Responsible). (various references)

French

suffisant, fier de soi, content de soi, chic (smart, smartness). (various references)

German

selbstzufrieden (complacent, self-satisfied), süffisant (complacent, sardonic, sardonically, smugly). (various references)

Greek 

φαντασμένοσ (bumptious, cocky, conceited, coxcomb, hoity toity, jackanapes, ladida, opinionated, priggish, self-conceited, self-important, snobbish, snooty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy), αυτάρεσκοσ (complacent, self-complacent, self-important, self-satisfied), αυτάρεσκος (complacent, full of oneself). (various references)

Hebrew 

שבע רצון מעצמו. (various references)

Hungarian

pedáns (meticulous, painstaking, pedantic, prim), önelégült (complacent, self confident, self sufficient, self-complacent, self-righteous, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, smirk), kínosan rendes. (various references)

Italian

soddisfatto di sé (self-satisfied), compiaciuto (complacent, pleased, self-satisfied). (various references)

Korean 

말쑥한. (various references)

Manx

jeant magh (contented, endued, satisfied), boggysagh (boaster, boastful, brag, triumphant in nasty way). (various references)

Pig Latin

ugsmay.(various references)

Portuguese

todo cheio de si, presunçoso (bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, self-confident, self-opinionated, self-sufficient, snippy, uppish, upstage, vainglorious), garrido, convencido (cockish, cocksure, cocky, conceited, convinced, coxy, sure, vain), afetado (affected, bijou, conceited, coxcombical, dandified, dollish, far-fetched, finical, foppish, forced, fulsome, mannered, miminy-piminy, niminy-piminy, pompous, precious, pretentious, prim, scenic, scenical, stilted, theatrical, wiredrawn). (various references)

Romanian

fercheş (dapper, jaunty, nutty, spicy, swell, trim), elegant (daintily, dainty, Dandy, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, graceful, gracefully, jaunty, polite, smart, smartly, spicy, stylish, swell, tasty, well-dressed), îngust la minte. (various references)

Russian 

самодовольный (bighead, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, complacent, conceited, coxcombical, huffy, po-faced, priggish, self-complacent, self-righteous, self-satisfied, stuck-up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

samozadovoljan (self-satisfied). (various references)

Spanish

presumido (attitudinizer, boastful, cocksure, conceited, hoity toity, pompous, poseur, presumptuous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self-assertive, self-conceited, self-important, show off, snooty, stuck up, vain, vainglorious), pagado de sí. (various references)

Swedish

självbelåten (complacent, self-satisfied). (various references)

Thai

สบายใจ. (various references)

Turkish

temiz giyimli (neat, trig), kendisiyle gurur duyan, kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, snappy, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market). (various references)

Ukrainian

самовдоволений (cock-a-hoop, complacent, coxcombical, jaunty, opinioned, prick-eared, self-approving, self-complacent, self-righteous, self-satisfied, stuck up), чванько, охайний (clean, cleanly, deft, natty, neat, orderly, shipshape, smart, spiffed, tidy), наряджати (array, attire, caparison, doll, prank, prink, rig out), манірний (affected, angular, ceremonious, donnish, finical, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, offish, prim, prudish, starchy), зубрило (crammer, sap, swot), прикрашати (adorn, apparel, beautify, bedeck, bespread, brighten, caparison, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, dress out, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, gloss over, grace, needle, ornament, ornamentalize, prettify, set forth, sugar coat, trim, trim up, varnish). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bảnh choẹ. (various references)

sm�cken. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "smug": smugger, smuggest, smuggle, smuggled, smuggler, smugglers, smuggles, smuggling, smugly, smugness, smugnesses. (additional references)

Words containing "smug": antismuggling. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Smug" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pmug, saug, shmug, smag, smeg, smmap, smo, smogg, smorg, smpg, smud, smue, snogg, snugs, spug, stmg, stug, sumb, sumr, sumu, swug, Xmu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gums, mugs.

-1 letter: gum, mug, mus, sum.

-2 letters: mu, um, us.

+1 letter: gaums, geums, magus, muggs, sagum.

+2 letters: algums, almugs, begums, degums, gamuts, glomus, glumes, grumes, grumps, gumbos, gummas, gypsum, jugums, moguls, mungos, musing, muskeg, smudge, smudgy, smugly, subgum, ugsome.

+3 letters: agamous, amusing, gazumps, gomutis, grampus, grumose, grumous, guimpes, gumless, gummers, gummose, gummous, gumshoe, gypsums, humbugs, impugns, legumes, magnums, magueys, meshuga, midguts, morgues, mousing, mugfuls, muggars, muggees, muggers, muggins, muggurs, mugshot, mushing, musings, muskegs, mussing, mustang, musting, nutmegs, scumbag, slumgum, smudged, smudges, smugger, smuggle, sorghum, spuming, subgums, summing, zeugmas.