Smart
Smart (smart) , intransitive verb
[Old English smarten, Anglo-Saxon smeortan; akin to Dutch smarten, smerten, German schmerzen, Old High German smerzan, Danish smerte, Swedish smarta, Dutch smart, smert, a pain, German schmerz, Old High German smerzo, and probably to Latin mordere to bite; compare Greek smerdno`s, smerdale`os, terrible, fearful, Sanskrit mrd to rub, crush. Compare Morsel.]
1.
To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart. — Chaucer
2.
To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Smart , transitive verb
To cause a smart in.
A goad that... smarts the flesh.
Smart , noun
[Old English smerte. See Smart, v. i.]
1.
Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
In pain's smart.
2.
Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart.
Counsel mitigates the greatest smart.
3.
A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang] — Fielding
4.
Smart money (see below). [Canf]
Smart , adjective
[Old English smerte. See Smart, v. i.]
1.
Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.
2.
Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
3.
Vigorous; sharp; severe.
Smart skirmishes, in which many fell.
4.
Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloquial]
5.
Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
The stars shine smarter.
6.
Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
Who, for the poor renown of being smart
Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
A sentence or two,... which I thought very smart.
7.
Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
8.
Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
Collocations (2)
Smart money (Military) , (a) Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injures received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done — Burrill
Smart ticket , a certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. [English] — Brande & C