Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Smug

/smŭg/ · IPA /smʌɡ/

01 a. Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.

1.
Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
“They be so smug and smooth.” — Robynson (More's Utopia).

“The smug and scanty draperies of his style.” — De Quincey.

“A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow.” — Beau. & Fl.

02 v. t. To make smug, or spruce.

imp. & p. p. Smugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Smugging

1.
To make smug, or spruce.[Obs.]
“Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair.” — Dryton.