smicker

Meanings

Adjective

• Elegant; fine; attractive, beautiful.
• Amorous; wanton.
• Handsome, spruce; smart, dapper.

Verb

• To look amorously or wantonly

Origin

• From Middle English smiker, from Old English smicer, smicor, from Proto-Germanic *smikraz, from Proto-Indo-European *smēyg-, from Proto-Indo-European *smē-, *smey-. Cognate with Middle High German smecker, Ancient Greek σμικρός, μικρός, Lithuanian smeigti, Latin mīca.
• For the verb, compare Swedish smickra, Danish smigre.