šmaukt

From Proto-Baltic *smyauk-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewk-, *mewk- (“slick, slimy, slippery, to slide”), from a stem *meu- (“humid”) (whence also mukt, maukt and šmaugs, q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian smaũkti (“to pluck, to pull, to roll up, to push, to shove, to caress, to deceive, to cheat, to go slowly”).^[1]

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šmaukt (transitive or intransitive, 1st conjugation, present šmaucu, šmauc, šmauc, past šmaucu)

1. (colloquial) to go quickly, to run

   suns pienāk pie durvīm un paraugās, kas ārā notiek... ja pamatīgi līst, mājas sargs šmauc atpakaļ virtuvē ― the dog comes to the door to check what is happening outside... if it is raining heavily, the house defender (= dog) runs back into the kitchen

2. (colloquial, transitive) to cheat, to deceive

   šmaukt pircējus ― to cheat (one's) buyers, clients

   ak, kā mēs mīlam ar savu īsredzību sevi un citus šmaukt! ― oh, how we love to deceive ourselves and others with our short-sightedness!

   man tik un tā neticēs, jo es šos lāga cilvēkus, tīri negribēdams, biju šodien pietiekoši šmaucis ― people will sometimes not believe me, because I, totally unwillingly, have sufficiently deceived those nice people today

• (of "run"): skriet, bēgt, (colloquial) mukt, (colloquial) desot
• (of "cheat"): krāpt, mānīt, maldināt

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