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Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewk-
Proto-Indo-European *smewg-der.
Proto-Germanic *smeuganą
Proto-West Germanic *smeugan
Old Dutch *smūgan
Middle Dutch *smugen
Proto-Germanic *-lōną
Proto-West Germanic *-lōn
Old Dutch -lon
Middle Dutch -elen
Middle Dutch *smuggelen
Dutch smokkelen bor. ?
Low German smuggeln bor. ?
English smuckle
English smuggle

    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").

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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[1] , 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.
      • 2026 June 24, Vitali Vitaliev, "Life on the borderline", in RAIL, number 1064, page 68:
        'Smuggling was a way of life here, with no stigma attached,' David explained. His own granny used to smuggle out rabbit meat, tied to her body, and bring back such coveted Italian goods as chocolate, coffee and brooms. 'Brooms?' I asked him in disbelief. 'Yes, ordinary sorghum brooms, which were in short supply in Communist Yugoslavia, like many other basic household goods,' he said with a smile.
    2. (transitive ) To bring in surreptitiously.
      • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]
        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.
      • 2026 June 23, Phil McNulty, "England 0-0 Ghana", in BBC‎[3] :
        England finally found some urgency in the closing stages, when O'Reilly held his head in his hands after hitting the woodwork, with Guehi similarly disappointed to see his header smuggled off the line.

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