smug
意味
- 自己満足した,ひとりよがりの
例文
His smug behavior is offensive.
彼のきざな態度は頭にくる。
I think that things like animal rights are really just humanity being smug.
動物愛護とか所詮人間の自己満足だと思う。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Originally "spruce, neat," from Low German smuk (“pretty”), from Middle Low German smuk (“lithe, delicate, neat, trim”), although the g of the English word is not easily explained. The ultimate source should be Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to crawl, creep”). From the Low German derived also North Frisian smok, Danish smuk and Swedish smukk (now obsolete or dialectal). Compare also Middle High German gesmuc (“ornament”) and smücken (“to dress, to adorn”), both ultimately from smiegen (“to press to, insert, wrap, to nestle”), hence German schmiegen, Schmuck and schmücken. The adjective schmuck, however, was borrowed from Low German. See smock for more.