Now only Sc. Also 9 smikker. [app. f prec.]
† 1. intr. To look amorously or wantonly at or after a person. Obs.
1668. Dryden, Even. Love, III. i. Must you be smickering after Wenches, while I am in Calamity?
1668. Davenant, Mans the Master, II. i. No, no, I see I may make love long enough before you smicker at me.
2. Sc. To smile or smirk.
1802. Sibbald, Chron. Scot. Poetry, Gloss., Smikker, to smile in a seducing manner.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Stormd (1827), 70.
At him, my grandsher, and the Vicar, | |
As they marcht up, and aff did bicker, | |
The god o gaups did laugh and smikker. |
1888. Delday, in Edwards, Mod. Sc. Poets, 12th Ser. 41. To pass the time and have a chat, And see them sweetly smicker.
Hence † Smickering vbl. sb., an amorous inclination. Obs.
1699. Dryden, Lett. to Mrs. Steward, 28 Sept. We had a young doctour, who rode by our coach, and seemd to have a smickering to our young lady of Pilton.