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Smurf

//smɜːf// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A blue pixie with a white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.

    "He occasionally used the proper noun of the restaurant as an adverb, the way a Smurf would."

  2. 2
    A smurf account or its user. Internet
  3. 3
    A smurf attack.
  4. 4
    One member of a team, each of whom acquires a small amount of money or ingredients for manufacturing drugs, keeping the transactions too small in order to not raise suspicion. slang

    "Each smurf goes to different banks and purchases cashier's checks in denominations of less than $ 10,000, thus bypassing the reporting requirement."

Verb
  1. 1
    Used to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs. slang
  2. 2
    To split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny; to carry out structuring.
  3. 3
    To carry out a smurf attack against someone. transitive
  4. 4
    To use a smurf account. Internet
  5. 5
    To use a smurf account.; To perform exceptionally well, as if one's using a smurf account, playing into much inferior opponents. Internet, broadly, intransitive, transitive

    "He has been absolutely smurfing this season."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch smurf (via the Belgian comic De Smurfen, a translation of French Les Schtroumpfs), from French schtroumpf, a word that was created by Peyo based on German Strumpf (literally “stocking, sock”) while he was having dinner, either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch smurf (via the Belgian comic De Smurfen, a translation of French Les Schtroumpfs), from French schtroumpf, a word that was created by Peyo based on German Strumpf (literally “stocking, sock”) while he was having dinner, either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.

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