adjective. Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one's situation; self-righteously complacent.

To make smug or spruce: often with up.

Smooth; sleek; neat; trim; spruce; fine: also, affectedly proper; unctuous; especially, affectedly nice in dress; satisfied with one's own appearance; hence, self-satisfied in any respect.

Affectedly or conceitedly smart.

noun. One who is affectedly proper and nice; a self-satisfied person.

noun. A smith.

To confiscate summarily, as boys used to confiscate tops, marbles, etc., when the game was played out of season.

To hush up.

adjective. Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.

transitive verb. To make smug, or spruce.

adjective. Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.

verb. To make smug, or spruce.

adjective. marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction

"The same may be said of ‘sconce’, in this sense at least; of ‘nowl’ or ‘noll’, which Wiclif uses; of ‘slops’ for trousers (Marlowe’s _Lucan_); of ‘cocksure’ (Rogers), of ‘smug’, which once meant no more than adorned (“the _smug_ bridegroom”, Shakespeare)."

content  contented  

smugged  smugging  smugly  smugness  

Bug  Doug  Lug  Zug  antidrug  

apologetic  arrogant  cocky  complacent  condescend  

Quakerish  Victorian  bland  bovine  braw  

smugger  smuggest