smarm
Noun
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Noun
smarm
- Smarmy language or behavior.
- (fandom slang) A style of fan fiction in which characters are warm and caring toward each other but without sexual overtones.
smarm (smarms, present participle smarming; past and past participle smarmed)
- (intransitive) To fawn, to be unctuous.
- (transitive) To address in a fawning and unctuous manner.
- 1874 Frank Usher A strange love vol.2 p.53 ↗ (London: Tinsley Bros):
- "If you go to her and smarm her, it will be all right."
- "If I do what to her?" asked Mervyn, wondering what the operation of smarming might be.
- "Of course you don't know," laughed Aggie; "it is a school word. You explain what it means, Isabel."
- "To smarm," explained Isabel, "signifies to say 'yes ma'am,' or 'yes marm,' to a governess when she is rating you. It is ah expressive word, isn't it? It means 'to conciliate by assent;' that is the best definition that I can give of it."
- "Excellent word," said Mervyn. "Then. I am to smarm your mamma, am I, Aggie?["]
- 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine
- He rose ... on his wife's fortune and judicious smarming of powerful people.
- 1874 Frank Usher A strange love vol.2 p.53 ↗ (London: Tinsley Bros):
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