[Magdalen] the word "smart"

[ME Michaud]

We were talking about words yesterday and I remembered:
my grandmother used the word "smart" to describe someone fashionably
dressed,
and a "smart car" was new, shiny, bordering on vulgar.

My mother used "smart" in that sense, too, and also to mean "intelligent,"

To me, a smart person is intelligent and a bit canny,
and a smart car fits in a tiny parking space.

Words just go on changing.
No wonder we cling to our BCP.
-M