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Smack
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- 1 As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply. not-comparable
"Right smack in the middle of getting ready to leave."
- 1 directly wordnet
- 1 A surname from German.
- 2 An Apache-based solution stack consisting of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka.
- 1 A distinct flavor, especially if slight. countable, uncountable
"rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon"
- 2 A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
"But without Union reinforcement, as many men as could be packed into a mere fishing smack could take the fort, Meigs wrote to Washington."
- 3 A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- 4 the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand wordnet
- 5 A slight trace of something; a smattering. countable, uncountable
"He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too."
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- 6 A group of jellyfish. collective
- 7 The sound of a loud kiss.
"he took the bride about the neck. And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack."
- 8 an enthusiastic kiss wordnet
- 9 Heroin. slang, uncountable
"Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later."
- 10 A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- 11 street names for heroin wordnet
- 12 A form of fried potato; a scallop. Northern-England, countable, uncountable
- 13 a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast wordnet
- 14 the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth wordnet
- 15 a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) wordnet
- 1 To get the flavor of. transitive
"He soon smacked the taste of physic hidden in this sweetness."
- 2 To slap or hit someone.
- 3 press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating wordnet
- 4 To have a particular taste; used with of. intransitive
"1820-25, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from."
- 5 To make a smacking sound.
"A horse neighed, and a whip smacked, there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel."
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- 6 deliver a hard blow to wordnet
- 7 To indicate or suggest something; used with of. intransitive
"Her reckless behavior smacks of pride."
- 8 To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- 9 kiss lightly wordnet
- 10 To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
"But when, obedient to the mode / Of panegyric, courtly ode / The bard bestrides, his annual hack, / In vain I taste, and sip and smack, / I find no flavour of the Sack."
- 11 have a distinctive or characteristic taste wordnet
- 12 To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- 13 have an element suggestive (of something) wordnet
Etymology
The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”). The verb is from Middle English smaken. Cognate with English dialectal smatch, Scots smak (“scent, smell, taste, flavour”), Saterland Frisian Smoak (“taste”), West Frisian smaak (“taste”), Dutch smaak (“taste”), German Schmack, Geschmack (“taste”), Danish smag (“taste”), Swedish and Norwegian smak (“taste”), Norwegian smekke . Akin to Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). More at smatch.
The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”). The verb is from Middle English smaken. Cognate with English dialectal smatch, Scots smak (“scent, smell, taste, flavour”), Saterland Frisian Smoak (“taste”), West Frisian smaak (“taste”), Dutch smaak (“taste”), German Schmack, Geschmack (“taste”), Danish smag (“taste”), Swedish and Norwegian smak (“taste”), Norwegian smekke . Akin to Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). More at smatch.
From Middle Low German smack (Low German Schmacke, Schmaake (“small ship”)) or Dutch smak, perhaps ultimately related to smakken, imitative of the sails' noise.
From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)).
From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)).
From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)).
Possibly an Americanized form of German Schmack.
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