Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to smirt
Participle: smirted
Gerund: smirting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | smirt |
| you | smirt |
| he;she;it | smirts |
| we | smirt |
| you | smirt |
| they | smirt |
Perfect
| I | have smirted |
| you | have smirted |
| he;she;it | has smirted |
| we | have smirted |
| you | have smirted |
| they | have smirted |
Past
| I | smirted |
| you | smirted |
| he;she;it | smirted |
| we | smirted |
| you | smirted |
| they | smirted |
Pluperfect
| I | had smirted |
| you | had smirted |
| he;she;it | had smirted |
| we | had smirted |
| you | had smirted |
| they | had smirted |
Future
| I | will smirt |
| you | will smirt |
| he;she;it | will smirt |
| we | will smirt |
| you | will smirt |
| they | will smirt |
Future Perfect
| I | will have smirted |
| you | will have smirted |
| he;she;it | will have smirted |
| we | will have smirted |
| you | will have smirted |
| they | will have smirted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | smirt |
| you | smirt |
| he;she;it | smirt |
| we | smirt |
| you | smirt |
| they | smirt |
Perfect
| I | have smirted |
| you | have smirted |
| he;she;it | have smirted |
| we | have smirted |
| you | have smirted |
| they | have smirted |
Imperfect
| I | smirted |
| you | smirted |
| he;she;it | smirted |
| we | smirted |
| you | smirted |
| they | smirted |
Pluperfect
| I | had smirted |
| you | had smirted |
| he;she;it | had smirted |
| we | had smirted |
| you | had smirted |
| they | had smirted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would smirt |
| you | would smirt |
| he;she;it | would smirt |
| we | would smirt |
| you | would smirt |
| they | would smirt |
Perfect
| I | would have smirted |
| you | would have smirted |
| he;she;it | would have smirted |
| we | would have smirted |
| you | would have smirted |
| they | would have smirted |
Imperative
| you | smirt |
| we | Let's smirt |
| you | smirt |
Verbs conjugated like 'smirt'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'smirt'
shirt,
skirt,
smilt,
smirk,
snirt,
spirt,
airt,
amit,
blirt,
dirt,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Blend of smoke + flirt. Apparently coined in Ireland following the ban on smoking in pubs.
Sample Sentences
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Smirting - a cross between smoking and flirting - is already a huge hit in Dublin where the ban has been in place for two years [2006 March 25, “BURNING PASSION IN CIGGIE SHELTERS”, in The Scottish Daily Record:]
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I have dated three guys that I smirted with, and one of them is now my current boyfriend. [2007 July 2, Clover Stroud, “Smoke signals: new dating paths?”, in Daily Mail:]
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Smirting is believed to have started in Temple Bar, Dublin, in 2004 [2008 July 1, “Unintended consequences of the smoking ban”, in BBC NEWS:]
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As a result, despite the ban, the smoking rate in Ireland has been stuck at around 28% and the expected decline in cigarette consumption never materialized. A new social practice quickly emerged called “smirting”, where young Dubliners smoke and flirt with members of the opposite sex [2012, GN Connolly, “How Society Treats Smoking”, in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research:]