LekhoriLekhoriirritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.
Kate looked extremely smug this morning.
Showing smugness; showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction.
a smug look on her face
Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
They be so smug and smooth.
To make smug, or spruce.
Thus said, he smug'd his beard, and stroked up fair.
to adopt an offensively self-complacent expression.
The smuggling trade.
Have not they some term by which they distinguish the illicit trade? — They usually call it the Smug-pigeon.
Originally "spruce, neat," from Low German smuk (“pretty”), from Middle Low German smuk (“lithe, delicate, neat, trim”), although the g of the English word is not easily explained. The ultimate source...
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To seize; to confiscate.