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smiler|ˈsmaɪlə(r)|
[f. smile v.]
1. One who smiles.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1141 Ther saugh I..The smyler with the knyfe vnder the cloke. 1668Dryden Even. Love Epil. 5 Where a lot of Smilers lent an Ear To one that talk'd. 1694Poet Buffoon'd 1 Much like the Losers and the Winners, One Smiler and two hundred Grinners. 1742Young Nt. Th. i. 315 Know, smiler! at thy peril art thou pleas'd. 1795Aikin Even. Home xxix. (Dove) 507 Through her pale and emaciated features, he saw something of his little smiler. 1855Smedley H. Coverdale i, A..pleasant smile it was too.., making the smiler look particularly handsome. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 279 Noticing that a few Gallic smilers were gathering round.
b. As a moth-name: (see quot.).
1832Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & Moths 77 The Smiler (Polia Polymita).
2. slang. A kind of shandy-gaff.
1892Daily News 16 Nov. 2/3 A singular mixture of beer and lemonade known in Manchester as a smiler. 1900Ibid. 30 Apr. 5/1 To take these generous liquors in the diluted forms of ‘shandy-gaff’ or ‘smiler’. |