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smurf

nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues

  • //smɜːf//
  • //smɝf//

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

nom

  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.

  3. 3

    A smurf attack.

  4. 4

    argotOne 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.

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

    Once the checks and money orders were purchased, the smurfs delivered them to Barrera, who arranged deposits of multiple checks and money orders into bank accounts that he controlled for further transfer to accounts in Panama, Colombia, and elsewhere.

    The local cooks would get some smurfs to buy boxes of Sudafed at all the drugstores in a hundred-mile radius, then pay them off in product.

Étymologie

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.

verbe

  1. 1

    argotUsed to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs.

  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.

  4. 4

    To use a smurf account.

  5. 5

    To use a smurf account. To perform exceptionally well, as if using a smurf account, playing much inferior opponents.

    He has been absolutely smurfing this season.

    Oh my god, he smurfed that fight so hard!

Formes

pluriel
smurfs, smurves
passé
smurfed
participe passé
smurfed
participe présent
smurfing
3ᵉ personne du singulier
smurfs
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).