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last week I posted this:
the worthless word for the day is: smug
[perhaps back-formation fr. smuggling]
to steal, filch, run away with
"What did that mean about the smugging in the square?
Why did the five fellows out of the higher line run
away for that? It was a joke, he thought."
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist.. (1916)
which elicited the following smug response:
It means to show excessive pride in oneself. This is obsolete.
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