Word of the Day: SMIRKLE

ETYMOLOGY
from smirk (vb.) + -le

EXAMPLE
“… Blinks waggish glances now and then,
And flytes upon his priests sae jolly
For heaviness and melancholy;
The friskier for the flytin’ they
Gaffaw and smirkle in their play
‘Mid sic like daffery and glaikin’,
Baith god and priest were merry-makin’,
Whan, hark! upon the gowden door,
Tirl! comes a rap, as seld before …”

From: Papistry Storm’d; or, The Dingin’ Down o’ the Cathedral
By William Tennant, 1827