a. Sc. and U.S. Also 8–9 smerky. [f. SMIRK sb. or a. + -Y.] Smart, neat, smiling; simpering; of the nature of a smirk.
17[?]. Ramsay, To Duncan Forbes, v. Wks. 1877, II. 318. How smirky look’d the little wight.
1835. Fraser’s Mag., XI. 229. A very haughty dame among her fellow-servants of her own sex, but rather smirky and sly with the men.
1848. [A. B. Longstreet], Georgia Scenes, 197. I overtook a swarthy, bright-eyed, smerky little fellow.
1880. ‘Mark Twain,’ Tramp Abroad, xxxviii. 440. He introduced himself, smiling a smirky smile borrowed from the courtiers of the stage.
