Also 7 smugg(e. [f. prec.]
1. trans. To smarten up (oneself or another, one’s appearance, etc.); to make trim or gay. Freq. with up.
(a) 1588. Greene, Perimedes, To Rdr. To enter parlee with his wif, smugd vp in her best apparrell.
1599. Dekker, Shoemaker’s Holiday, III. iv. Mistress, smug up your looks; on with your best apparel.
1623. Middleton & Rowley, Sp. Gipsy, IV. i. Smug up your beetle-brows, none look grimly.
1672. Wycherley, Love in Wood, III. ii. 43. If she has smugg’d her self up for me, let me Prune, and Flounce my Perruque a little for her.
1750. F. Coventry, Hist. Pompey, I. ix. Your … master … has been smugging up his pretty face.
1772. trans. J. F. de Isla’s Friar Gerund, IV. iii. 68. He had smugged himself up, it is evident, with the utmost prolixity.
1888. Blackw. Mag., June, 788. This worthy tutor, doubtless ‘smugged up’ in his Sunday suit.
(b) 1598. E. Guilpin, Skial., E 2. I must craue A little labour to be smug’d, and haue A blessing of Rose-water.
1602. Marston, Ant. & Mel., III. Wks. 1856, I. 37. I have put on good cloathes, and smugd my face.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. xvii. 260.
| But to the Pole annex your Brasen Bason, | |
| ’Tis not to smug one then, but to amaze one. |
1772. trans. J. F. de Isla’s Friar Gerund, II. v. 362. Our Friar Gerund was so shaved, and combed, and smugged, and spruced, that it was a delight to behold his face.
1841. Peter Parley’s Ann., II. 234. Poor old Goody Clackett had little thoughts of ever being smugged … to make a guy on the fifth of November.
1841. L. Hunt, Seer (1864), II. 74. All the thoroughfares in towns near London … have wonderfully plucked up, and smugged themselves of late years.
b. absol. To put on a smart or smug expression.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. V., ccxcii. The Bloat Face of Rusticitie, Smuggs, looking in A Mirrour.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills, V. 74. You smug, you trick, You toss a twire, a grin.
2. To smarten up (a thing); to fit up (a room, etc.) neatly or nicely. rare.
1598. Florio, Brandire, to trick, smug, spruce, or trim vp any thing.
1745. H. Walpole, Lett. (1840), II. 64. The moment I have smugged up a closet or a dressing-room, I have always warning given me, that my lease is out. Ibid. (1751), 399. The chapel is very pretty, and smugged up with tiny pews.
Hence Smugged ppl. a. (also Comb.); Smugging vbl. sb.1
1706. Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), I. 217. Dr. Green was a little spruce smugg’d fac’d … Chaplain.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills, IV. 319. Drapers smugg’d Prentices.
1736. Ainsworth, I. A smugging up, Ornatus nitidus.
