smilern.
/ˈsmʌɪlə/, U.S. /ˈsmaɪlər/ 1.
a. One who smiles.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [noun] > one who smiles
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dimpler1713
beamer1857
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1141 Ther say I..The smyler with the knyf vnder the cloke.
1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love Epil. Where a knot of Smilers lent an eare To one that talk'd.
1694 Poet Buffoon'd 1 Much like the Losers and the Winners, One Smiler and two hundred Grinners.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 15 Know, Smiler! at thy peril art thou pleas'd.
1795 J. Aikin & A. L. Barbauld Evenings at Home xxix. (Dove) 507 Through her pale and emaciated features, he saw something of his little smiler.
?1856 F. E. Smedley Harry Coverdale's Courtship i. 3 A..pleasant smile it was too..making the 'smiler' look particularly handsome.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxvii. 118 Noticing that a few Gallic smilers were gathering round.
b. As a moth-name: (see quot. 1832).
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1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 77 The Smiler (Polia Polymita).
2. slang. A kind of shandy-gaff.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > mixed drinks of ale or beer > [noun]
three-threads1698
pap-in1748
half-and-half1756
porter cup1790
shandygaff1853
mixed ale1864
cooper1871
black and tan1881
four-half1884
mother-in-law1884
shandy1888
smiler1892
mild-and-bitter1933
red-eye1960
1892 Daily News 16 Nov. 2/3 A singular mixture of beer and lemonade known in Manchester as a smiler.
1900 Daily News 30 Apr. 5/1 To take these generous liquors in the diluted forms of ‘shandy-gaff’ or ‘smiler’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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