SUAVE, SAUVITY
ADJECTIVES
1661 ► PLACENTIOUS pleasing, or disposed to please; complaisant, amiable, agreeable, suave → obs.
1866 ► FAIR-FACED superficially polite, suave, deceitful → Sc.
1880 ► FAIR-SPOKEN frank, friendly; suave → Sc.
NOUNS
1917 ► OIL unctuous flattery; suavity → Amer. sl.
1929 ► APPLESAUCE flattery, suave talk → Amer. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1929 ► SMOOTHIE a suave person → sl., orig. US
1959 ► DARK GABLE a suave, handsome Black man; a ladies’ man → US sl.
1995 ► DON JUAN a handsome, suave, and romantic man → US sl. (Bk.)
PHRASES
1960 ► SWAVE AND BLAZE intentional and ironic mispronunciation of ‘suave and blase,’ used to denote sarcasm → Amer. sl.
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