Citations:smize

English citations of smize

Verb: "(slang) to smile with one's eyes"

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• 2010, Timothy McGivney, Zombielicious, MLR Press (2010), →ISBN, page 5:

  Through a ceiling to floor mirror that covers an entire wall, I “smize” at my stunning reflection, having easily mastered the come-fuck-me look that's going to sell me millions of CDs.

• 2012, Diksha Basu, Opening Night, HarperCollins Publishers India (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  When I smized at Jay the previous Friday, this was not what I was signing up for.

• 2012, Chloe Govan, Who's Laughing Now: The Story of Jessie J, Omnibus Press (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered pages:

  Through all weathers, Jessie kept “smizing”. Her acting background helped her to keep a cheerful.

• 2012, Babe Walker, White Girl Problems, Hyperion (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Not even my best smizing efforts during our first session together could crack his placid and concentrated visage.

• 2013, Liv Spencer, Taylor Swift: The Platinum Edition, ECW Press (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  While that endorsement deal was close to home, Taylor's highest-profile gig was less cross-checks and offsides and more smizing and hair blowing in the wind. CoverGirl announced that Taylor would be the spokesperson for its new NatureLuxe makeup line, debuting in 2011.

• 2014, Kelly Brook, Close Up: The Autobiography, Sidgwick & Jackson (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  I remember once turning up and it was for a catalogue. Often catalogues were fine – you'd put on some lingerie and a couple of baby-dolls and that would be that. But sometimes they'd have a sex-toy section and the last thing I wanted was to be smizing sexily while holding a pair of fur-lined handcuffs.

• 2014, Lara Williamson, A Boy Called Hope, Usborne Publishing (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Mrs Parfitt points to the curtains and says we're going to appear from behind those and walk down the catwalk, stop, then look into the audience and "smize."

• 2015, Joey Graceffa, In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World, Keywords Press/Atria (2015), →ISBN, page 235:

  I knew how to smize before I could even talk.

• 2015, Adrian R. Hale, A Taste of Bliss, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  I fight the urge to roll my eyes, and smile with my eyes, or smize, as hard as I can.

• 2015, Marie Jaskulka, The Lost Marble Notebook of Forgotten Girl & Random Boy, Skyhorse (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  He pushes a button,

  and I smize into his lens on instinct,

  a move I've been practicing

  in mirrors

  since the fourth grade.

• 2015, Alexandra Petri, A Field Guide to Awkward Silences, New American Library (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Whenever I tried to “smize,” model-style, people asked if I'd been possessed by an ancient and evil spirit.

Noun: "(slang) such an expression"

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• 2013, Candice A. Brown, Treading Water, The Reason Why...M.L.T.B. (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Tyra Banks would be so proud, my smize is perfect, she thought as she parted her lips slightly to make them appear even more full and voluptuous.

• 2014, Eve Lederman & Faye Lederman, "Acknowledgements", Letters from My Sister: On Life, Love and Hair Removal, Skyhorse (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  […] Rosemary for her incomparable wisdom and eternal “smize”; […]