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Smake

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of smack. alt-of, obsolete

    "One of the great ſources of this evil was, that if a man had beeen^([sic]) trained up at the feet of Gamaliel for a few years, and got a ſmake of the learning then in vogue, it was enough in their opinion to qualify him for being a builder in the houſe of God […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    Synonym of smack (“to taste, lick”).

    "Even Bill Bitters could not find it in his heart to say a word against this moisture, and he actually smaked his lips, although he turned away lest someone should see him do it."

Etymology

From dialectal smak, early modern English smake, from Middle English smaken (“to taste, sense flavour, detect by taste or smell”), from Middle Dutch smaken (“to taste”).

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