smuggle

English

Alternative forms

• smuckle (dialectal)

Etymology

From earlier smuckle, either from Dutch smokkelen (“to smuggle”), a frequentative form of Middle Dutch smūken (“to act secretly, be sneaky”), from Old Dutch *smugan, or from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German smuggeln; all are from Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to creep; slip through or into”).

cognates and related terms

Cognate with Saterland Frisian smuggelje (“to smuggle”), West Frisian smokkelje (“to smuggle”), German Low German smuggeln, smuckeln (“to move insidiously, smuggle”), German schmuggeln (“to smuggle”), Danish smugle (“to smuggle”), Swedish smuggla (“to smuggle”). Related also to Icelandic smjúga (“to creep, penetrate”), Swedish smyga (“to sneak, slip, crawl, lurk, steal”), German schmiegen (“to nestle, wrap, snuggle”), Old English smēogan, smūgan (“to creep, crawl, move gradually, penetrate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmʌɡəl/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡəl

Verb

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smuggle (third-person singular simple present smuggles, present participle smuggling, simple past and past participle smuggled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties

   Synonym: run

   • 2018 July 20, “Lorry driver jailed for smuggling illegal immigrants into UK”, in cps.gov.uk‎, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 20 July 2018:

     A lorry driver who smuggled illegal immigrants into the UK in the back of his trailer has been jailed.

2. (transitive) To bring in surreptitiously
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games

     While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To fondle or cuddle.
4. (slang) To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.

Derived terms

• smuggle past
• smuggling
• smuggler

Translations

to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties

Afrikaans: smokkel Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: هَرَّبَ (ar) (harraba) Egyptian Arabic: هرب (harrab) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Basque: kontrabando egin Bulgarian: контрабандирам (kontrabandiram) Catalan: fer el contraban Chinese: Cantonese: 走私 (zau2 si1) Mandarin: 走私 (zh) (zǒusī) Czech: pašovat (cs) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: salakuljettaa (fi) French: passer en contrebande, contrebander (fr) Galician: contrabandear (gl) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: schmuggeln (de) Greek: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: הבריח Hindi: तस्करी करना (taskarī karnā), तस्करी (hi) f (taskarī) Hungarian: csempészik (hu), csempész (hu) Ido: kontrabandar (io) Italian: contrabbandare (it) Japanese: 密輸する (ja) (mitsuyu suru) Khmer: រត់គយ (rŭətkɔɔy) Korean: 밀수하다 (milsuhada) Lao: ລັກລອບ (lak lǭp) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: криу́мчари (kriúmčari), шверцува (švercuva) Maori: kuhu tāhae, kawe toropuku, kawe tāhae Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Neapolitan: smercià, cuntrabbandà Norman: faithe la fraude, frauder Norwegian: Bokmål: smugle Polish: przemycać (pl) impf, przemycić (pl) pf Portuguese: contrabandear (pt) Romanian: contrabanda Russian: провози́ть контраба́ндой (provozítʹ kontrabándoj) Serbo-Croatian: krijumčariti (sh) Slovak: pašovať impf Slovene: tihotapiti impf, pretihotapiti pf Sotho: kunyata Spanish: contrabandear (es), pasar (es) de contrabando (es) m Swedish: smuggla (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: робити контрабанду (robyty kontrabandu), провозити контрабандою impf (provozyty kontrabandoju) Vietnamese: buôn lậu (vi)

to bring in surreptitiously

Bulgarian: внасям тайно (vnasjam tajno) German: schmuggeln (de) Hungarian: csempészik (hu), csempész (hu) Maori: kawe toropuku

to thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner

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Translations to be checked

Dutch: smokkelen (nl) Estonian: salakaubana vedama Swedish: smuggla (sv)

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