smile-smirk

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instance of smile-smirking; a combined smile and smirk.
    — […] and he'd quickly pull out and jettison a storm, turbospewing her back and hair and sheets and face and ears and sly, conniving little smile-smirk.
动词 v.
  1. To smile while smirking.
    — She smilesmirked supercilious (wept! aren’t men?), but, lightward gliding, mild she smiled on Boylan.

词形变化

smile-smirks present,singular,third-person smile-smirking participle,present smile-smirked participle,past smile-smirked past smile-smirks plural

词源

词源 1
Compound of smile + smirk. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses (see quotation below).
词源 2
Compound of smile + smirk. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses (see quotation below).
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