smirks

Meaning of smirks

verb, 3rd person present
  1. smile in an irritatingly smug, conceited, or silly way.
    he smirked in triumph
plural noun
  1. a smug, conceited, or silly smile.
    Gloria pursed her mouth in a self-satisfied smirk

Old English sme(a)rcian, from a base shared by smile. The early sense was ‘to smile’; it later gained a notion of smugness or silliness.

Information about smirks

  • The singular form of smirks is: smirk.
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Hyphenation of smirks

smirks

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • smirks is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

smirks synonyms

Meaning smile in an affectedly coy or ingratiating manner:

simper

Meaning laugh in a half-suppressed, typically scornful way:

snigger

Meaning look or gaze in a lascivious or unpleasant way:

leer

Words that rhyme with smirks

irks, birks, dirks, firks, chirks, shirks, Dunkirks, kirks, steenkirks, steinkirks, lirks, mirks, stirks, quirks, yirks

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