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Meaning of "smuggery" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SMUGGERY

smuggery  [ˈsmʌɡərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SMUGGERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Smuggery is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SMUGGERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of smuggery in the English dictionary

The definition of smuggery in the dictionary is the condition or an instance of being smug; smugness.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SMUGGERY


allegory
ˈælɪɡərɪ
buggery
ˈbʌɡərɪ
Calgary
ˈkælɡərɪ
category
ˈkætɪɡərɪ
Gregory
ˈɡrɛɡərɪ
humbuggery
ˈhʌmˌbʌɡərɪ
Hungary
ˈhʌŋɡərɪ
Nagari
ˈnɑːɡərɪ
piggery
ˈpɪɡərɪ
pugaree
ˈpʌɡərɪ
puggaree
ˈpʌɡərɪ
sculduggery
skʌlˈdʌɡərɪ
skulduggery
skʌlˈdʌɡərɪ
skullduggery
skʌlˈdʌɡərɪ
snuggerie
ˈsnʌɡərɪ
snuggery
ˈsnʌɡərɪ
subcategory
ˈsʌbˌkætəɡərɪ
sugary
ˈʃʊɡərɪ
thuggery
ˈθʌɡərɪ
vinegary
ˈvɪnɪɡərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SMUGGERY

smudge
smudgedly
smudgeless
smudger
smudgily
smudginess
smudging
smudgy
smug
smugger
smuggest
smuggle
smuggler
smuggling
smuggling ring
smugly
smugness
smur
smurfing
smurred

WORDS THAT END LIKE SMUGGERY

carpetbaggery
doggery
eggery
froggery
gaggery
groggery
hoggery
imagery
jaggery
niggery
pettifoggery
priggery
raggery
ratbaggery
staggery
toggery
waggery
Whiggery
wiggery
windbaggery
zigzaggery

Synonyms and antonyms of smuggery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «smuggery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SMUGGERY

Find out the translation of smuggery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of smuggery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «smuggery» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

smuggery
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

smuggery
570 millions of speakers

English

smuggery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

smuggery
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

smuggery
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

smuggery
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

smuggery
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

smuggery
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

smuggery
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyeludupan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

smuggery
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

smuggery
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

smuggery
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Smuggery
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

smuggery
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

smuggery
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Smuggery
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

smuggery
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

smuggery
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

smuggery
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

smuggery
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

smuggery
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

smuggery
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

smuggery
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

smuggery
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

smuggery
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of smuggery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SMUGGERY»

The term «smuggery» is barely ever used and occupies the 203.300 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of smuggery
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SMUGGERY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «smuggery» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «smuggery» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about smuggery

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SMUGGERY»

Discover the use of smuggery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to smuggery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital ...
The dramatic story of Long-Term’s fall is now a chilling harbinger of the crisis that would strike all of Wall Street, from Lehman Brothers to AIG, a decade later.
Roger Lowenstein, 2001
2
Last River, Life Along Arkansas Lower White (p)
In unabashed smuggery we uplanders sometimes referred to that country as Swampeast Arkansas. We knew in those years after the Second World War that an engineering transformation inspired by Congress and the Army Corps of ...
Turner Browne
3
My Life on a Plate
I look at my friend Tamsin, thirty-four, single and desperate, and feel a warm glow of intense smuggery. Sometimes, though, I am so overwhelmed with jealousy — I can't remember the last time I was out all night, drinking martinis and flirting ...
India Knight, 2001
4
Tono-Bungay
Wediscussed and workedout distribution together first in the drawingroom floorin Gower Street withmyaunt sometimes helping very shrewdly, and then, with a steadily improving typeofcigar and older and older whisky,in his smuggery at their ...
H. G. Wells, 2013
5
Merriam-Webster's Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
... twittery 9 excitable, unrestful 10 high-strung 1 1 smart- alecky ness 4 cape 8 headland 10 promontory Nessus' victim 8 Heracles, Hercules nest 3 den 4 aery, home, lair, nidi (plural) 5 aerie, eyrie, nidus 6 nidify 7 hangout, shelter 8 smuggery ...
‎1995
6
Writing Our Lives: Autobiographies of American Jews, 1890-1990
Writing and the life of a soldier, student, husband, teacher, father, restless Bohemian, clever organizer in disordered times, all these distractions were not enough. Even the lonely devotion of storytelling becomes part smuggery in isolation ...
Steven Joel Rubin, 1991
7
The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, ...
... sirs — passport ; Searching for smuggery — wine in the snuggery, Lots of humbuggery, glass, port. Somewhat reviving — thanks to French living, Lots of blunt giving — poor John Bull ; Hey for the diligence — seek for intelligence, Rumbling, ...
Charles Lamb, Thomas Hood, 1825
8
Humana Festival 2006: The Complete Plays
Then you've come only to gloat, to putrify my last hours with your insufferable smuggery? COUNTESS. I came only for what is mine. (The COUNTESS tears the huge emerald from around ROMOLA's neck.) LADY ROMOLA. Ah! If only I had the ...
Adrien-Alice Lawson Hansel, Julie Felise Dubiner, 2007
9
Omissions are Not Accidents: Modern Apophaticism from Henry ...
These forces might be thought of as represented by Richard Dawkins, when in the opening of The Selfish Gene he, with a good deal of smuggery, writes that after Darwin '[w]e no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep ...
Christopher J. Knight, 2010
10
The Collective
I have ridden rails and passed the smuggery of desperate houseswith counterfeit chimneys and heard from the outside the inside clink of cocktail ice while closed doors broke the world and over itallasavage sicklemoon that bummed my eyes ...
Zola Press, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SMUGGERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term smuggery is used in the context of the following news items.
1
PMQs: David Cameron smashed Ed Miliband to bits
I hate PMQs. The barracking of less-confident backbench MPs when they rise to speak, the yah-boo point-scoring, and the smuggery, all combine to make it an ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
2
Samsung weighs in on Apple's bendgate scandal with phenomenal …
The poster used a quote by Apple founder Steve Jobs, who once said “No one is ever going to buy a big phone”. Samsung could barely contain its smuggery. «ITProPortal, Sep 14»
3
The clunky Apple watch: perfect for urban losers
Whenever Vanity Fair or a men's glossy arrives with a sponsored watch supplement, I wonder at the joyless smuggery. Movie stars with Malibu tans shooting ... «The Times, Sep 14»
4
Gadsby's Show Is Picture Perfect
Gadsby's musings steep you in high-brow smuggery for learning stuff about art, yet her churlish charm ensures laughs are laid on as thick as Van Gogh oil paints ... «Londonist, Sep 14»
5
Samsung trolls Apple's iPhone 6 Plus with Steve Jobs quote
In 2010, the late, great Steve Job famously stated that “No one is ever going to buy a big phone” – and Samsung can barely contain its smuggery. «ITProPortal, Sep 14»
6
Hector and the Search for Happiness review – Simon Pegg stars a …
Scene after scene follows of Hector pleasing himself: turning the head of every woman he encounters, Pegg's smuggery knows no bounds. Chelsom, for his part, ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
7
Batman #33 review
Meanwhile, Snyder puts just the right amount of haste in Batman's lines as he does with inflecting Riddler with ample helpings of callousness and smuggery. «Batman-News, Jul 14»
8
TOM PARKER BOWLES: The West End's greatest show: Plays are …
... plonk they serve up in the interval, available only to those skilled in the art of the mass brawl; and the all-pervading stench of greasepaint and smuggery. «Daily Mail, Jul 14»
9
32 emotions you will feel while watching tonight's 'Sherlock' as told …
Mixed with a little 'I knew it' fake smuggery: benedict cumberbatch gif. 8. And a bit of: benedict cumberbatch gif. 9. Followed by a bit of Cumberbatch appreciation ... «Time Out London, Jan 14»
10
No Breitbart, Paul Krugman Hasn't Filed For Bankruptcy
This news was then used by Parker as the basis for a piece of left-wing smuggery that ripped Palin for being so desperate to stay relevant. There was only one ... «Slate Magazine, Mar 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Smuggery [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/smuggery>. Apr 2024 ».
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