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smart
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /sm??t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sm??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Etymology 1
From Middle English smerten, from Old English smeortan (“to smart”), from Proto-Germanic *smertan? (“to hurt, ache”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to bite, sting”). Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smarten, German schmerzen, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta.
Verb
smart (third-person singular simple present smarts, present participle smarting, simple past smarted or (obsolete) smort, past participle smarted or (obsolete) smorten)
- (intransitive) To hurt or sting.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- (transitive) To cause a smart or sting in.
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Faith's Encouragement
- A goad that […] smarts the flesh.
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Faith's Encouragement
- (intransitive) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
- He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Derived terms
- arsesmart
- besmart
- nosesmart
- smartful
- smarting
- smartweed
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English smerte, smert, smarte, smart, from Old English smeart (“smarting, smart, painful”), from Proto-Germanic *smartaz (“hurting, aching”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to bite, sting”). Cognate with Scots smert (“painful, smart”), Old Frisian smert (“sharp, painful”).
Adjective
smart (comparative smarter or more smart, superlative smartest or most smart)
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Synonyms: bright, capable, sophisticated, witty
- Antonyms: backward, banal, boorish, dull, inept
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 19
- I always preferred the church, and I still do. But that was not smart enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too smart for me.
- (informal) Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- Synonyms: cultivated, educated, learned; see also Thesaurus:learned
- Antonyms: ignorant, uncultivated, simple
- (often in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
- Synonyms: attractive, chic, dapper, stylish, handsome
- Antonyms: garish, outré, tacky
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- Synonym: silly
- 1728, Edward Young, Satire
- Who, for the poor renown of being smart / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
- I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart, when my ill genius, who I verily believed inspired him purely for my destruction, suggested to him such a reply
- Sudden and intense.
- 1860 July 9, Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, from Thoreau's bird-lore, Francis H. Allen (editor), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, 1910), Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Beacon Press, (Boston, 1993), page 239:
- There is a smart shower at 5 P.M., and in the midst of it a hummingbird is busy about the flowers in the garden, unmindful of it, though you would think that each big drop that struck him would be a serious accident.
- 1860 July 9, Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, from Thoreau's bird-lore, Francis H. Allen (editor), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, 1910), Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Beacon Press, (Boston, 1993), page 239:
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- (Southern US, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
- (archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
- The stars shine smarter.
- (archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
- (archaic) Brisk; fresh.
Related terms
Descendants
- ? German: smart
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English smerte, from smerten (“to smart”). See above. Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smart, Low German smart, German Schmerz, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta. More above.
Noun
smart (plural smarts)
- A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
- 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, London: William Seres, Book , p. 51,[2]
- […] the bodie had no smart
- Of any wound: it was the minde that felt the cruell stings.
- 1716, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume 2, Book 5, lines 176-178, p. 25,[3]
- If chance some Shepherd with a distant Dart
- The Savage wound, he rowzes at the Smart,
- He foams, he roars […]
- 1871, Louisa May Alcott, Little Men, Chapter 12,[4]
- Of course Tommy came to grief, tumbled upon a hornets’ nest and got stung; but being used to woe, he bore the smart manfully […]
- 1948, Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter, London: Heinemann, Book One, Part One, Chapter 1, section 8, p. 42,[5]
- The smart of his wounded hand woke Scobie at two in the morning.
- 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, London: William Seres, Book , p. 51,[2]
- Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 7, p. 101,[6]
- Mishaps are maistred by aduice discrete,
- And counsell mitigates the greatest smart;
- Found neuer help, who neuer would his hurts impart.
- 1673, John Milton, “Anno aetatis 17. On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough” in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions Both English and Latin, London: Thomas Dring, p. 20,[7]
- But oh why didst thou not stay here below
- To bless us with thy heav’n lov’d innocence, […]
- To stand ’twixt us and our deserved smart
- But thou canst best perform that office where thou art.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 8,[8]
- I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry,—I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart—God knows what its name was,—that tears started to my eyes.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, London: Picador, Chapter 9, p. 250,[9]
- […] Bertrand said, ‘No, you bloody idiot, do you think I drink this? I want mineral water.’ The girl recoiled for just a second at the smart of his tone […] and then apologized with steely insincerity.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 7, p. 101,[6]
- Smart-money.
- (slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
- 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, London: A. Millar, 3rd edition, 1743, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 27,[10]
- […] I resolved to quit all further Conversation with Beaus and Smarts of every kind […]
- 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, London: A. Millar, 3rd edition, 1743, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 27,[10]
Derived terms
- smartful
Anagrams
- MSTAR, marts, stram, tarms, trams
Danish
Etymology
From English smart
Adjective
smart (neuter smart, plural and definite singular attributive smarte, comparative smartere, superlative (predicative) smartest, superlative (attributive) smarteste)
- (of a solution, contraption, plan etc.) well thought-out, neat
- snazzy, fashionable, dapper
Derived terms
- oversmart
Dutch
Alternative forms
- smert (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch smarte, from Proto-Germanic *smertan?. Cf. German Schmerz, English smart.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sm?rt/
- Hyphenation: smart
- Rhymes: -?rt
Noun
smart f (plural smarten)
- pain, sorrow, grief
Derived terms
- gedeelde smart is halve smart
- met smart
- smartengeld
German
Etymology
Borrowed from English smart, 19th c.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sma???t/, /sma?t/
Adjective
smart (comparative smarter, superlative am smartesten)
- smart (exhibiting social ability or cleverness)
- Synonyms: aufgeweckt, clever, gewitzt, pfiffig
- smart (good-looking, well-dressed)
- Synonyms: chic, elegant, fein
Further reading
- “smart” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English smart
Adjective
smart (neuter singular smart, definite singular and plural smarte, comparative smartere, indefinite superlative smartest, definite superlative smarteste)
- clever (mentally sharp or bright)
- smart
Derived terms
- smartklokke
- smarttelefon
References
- “smart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English smart
Adjective
smart (neuter singular smart, definite singular and plural smarte, comparative smartare, indefinite superlative smartast, definite superlative smartaste)
- clever (mentally sharp or bright)
- smart
Derived terms
- smartklokke
- smarttelefon
References
- “smart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Adjective
smart (invariable)
- smart (with smart technology)
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English smart.
Pronunciation
Adjective
smart (comparative smartare, superlative smartast)
- smart; clever
Declension
Anagrams
- tarms, trams
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nettle
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
From Middle English netle, netel, from Old English netle, netele, netel, from Proto-West Germanic *natilu (cognate with Old Saxon netila, Middle Dutch netele (modern Dutch netel), German Nessel, Middle Danish nædlæ (“nettle”)), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *nat? (of unknown origin, perhaps from the same source as net).
Pronunciation
- enPR: n?t'(?)l, IPA(key): /?n?t(?)l/
- Rhymes: -?t(?)l
Noun
nettle (plural nettles)
- Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
- Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
- Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
- Urtica incisa (Australian nettle);
- Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
- Bull nettles and spurge nettles of genus Cnidoscolus:
- Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle,
- Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle,
- Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle,
- Nettle trees or tree nettles:
- Various species of the genus Dendrocnide:
- Urera baccifera (scratchbush),
- Urtica ferox (tree nettle);
- rock nettle (Eucnide);
- small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
- Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
- Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
- ball nettle (Solanum carolinense);
- Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle;
- Solanum dimidiatum, western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle;
- Solanum rostratum, horse-nettle;
- Celtis (hackberry).
- Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
- dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium), particularly Lamium album, white nettle;
- false nettle (Boehmeria, family Urticaceae);
- flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus);
- hedge nettle (Stachys);
- hemp nettle (Galeopsis);
- horse nettle Agastache urticifolia,
- nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae).
- Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
nettle (third-person singular simple present nettles, present participle nettling, simple past and past participle nettled)(transitive)
- (transitive) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
- The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act I, Scene 3,[1]
- […] I am whipp’d and scourged with rods,
- Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear
- Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
- (transitive, figuratively) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
- 1679, Aphra Behn, The Feign’d Curtizans, London: Jacob Tonson, Act V, Scene 1, p. ,[2]
- His Mistress: whose Mistress, what Mistress; s’life how that little word has nettled me!
- 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, London: C. Rivington & J. Osborn, 2nd edition, Volume I, Letter 31, p. 212,[3]
- I saw Mr. Williams was a little nettled at my Impatience […]
- 1985, United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report: People's Republic of China (issues 180-189, page 42)
- Liu, whose political writings had nettled the Taiwanese authorities, was assassinated on October 15, last year, in Daly City […]
- 1679, Aphra Behn, The Feign’d Curtizans, London: Jacob Tonson, Act V, Scene 1, p. ,[2]
Translations
Anagrams
- letten, telnet
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