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[smahr-tish]

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adjective

rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.

rather fashionable; fairly chic or exclusive: a smartish new restaurant.

fairly impressive or significant: a smartish number of supporters at the rally.

rather saucy or pert.

Origin:
1730–40; smart + -ish¹

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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smart (smɑːt)

—*adj*
1.	astute, as in business; clever or bright
2.	quick, witty, and often impertinent in speech: a smart talker
3.	fashionable; chic: a smart hotel
4.	well-kept; neat
5.	causing a sharp stinging pain
6.	vigorous or brisk
7.	dialect considerable or numerous: a smart price
8.	(of systems) operating as if by human intelligence by using automatic computer control
9.	(of a projectile or bomb) containing a device that allows it to be guided to its target

—vb
10.	to feel, cause, or be the source of a sharp stinging physical pain or keen mental distress: a nettle sting smarts; he smarted under their abuse
11.	(often foll by for) to suffer a harsh penalty

—n
12.	a stinging pain or feeling

—*adv*
13.	in a smart manner

[Old English smeortan; related to Old High German smerzan, Latin mordēre to bite, Greek smerdnos terrible]

'smartish

—*adj*

'smartly

—*adv*

'smartness

—n

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