smaik Sc. Now arch.
Also 6 smaike, smayk, smaick, smak(e.
[perh. ad. MDu. or MLG. smēker, smeiker (= OHG. smeichâri, G. † schmeicher), f. smēken, smeiken to flatter.]
A low, mean, or contemptible fellow; a rascal, rogue.
| c 1450 [see smad v.]. 1513 Douglas æneid viii. Prol. 133 Quod I, Smak, lat me sleip; sym skynnar the hing. 1546 St. Papers Hen. VIII (1836) V. 571 Quhen I wret to ȝour Lordschip to do for Salmond, I knew nocht þat smaikis falset. 1584 J. Carmichael Lett. in Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) 438 Triumphing over the ministers, and calling them lownes, smaicks, seditious knaves. 1815 Scott Guy M. xxvi, He was nane o' the smaiks that had been on their quarters on the moss. 1828 ― F.M. Perth viii, I thought that smaik's name had been Robert. 1897 Pryde Queer Folk 55 Low-born smaik,..to scandaleese his betters! |
| attrib. 1508 Dunbar Tua mariit wemen 113 Quhen the smy on me smyrkis, with his smake [v.r. smaik] smolet. 1525 Aberdeen Reg. XV. 613 (Jam.), Smaik carll, I sell lay vpoun thi lyppis. |