smuggle

Meanings

Verb

import or export without paying customs duties
- "She smuggled cigarettes across the border"
To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
To bring in surreptitiously
To fondle or cuddle.
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.

Origin / 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”).

Synonyms

run

Scrabble Score: 11

smuggle is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
smuggle is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
smuggle is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

smuggle is a valid Words With Friends word