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foresmack

noun

Etymology

From fore- + smack (“taste”). Cognate with Dutch voorsmaak (“foretaste”), German Vorgeschmack (“foretaste”), Swedish försmak (“foretaste”).

  1. inherited from smaken
  2. derived from *smegʰ-,*smeg-✻
  3. inherited from *smakkuz✻ — “a taste”
  4. inherited from *smakku✻
  5. inherited from smæc,smæċċ
  6. inherited from smac,smak,smacke
  7. prefixed as foresmack — “fore + smack”

Definitions

  1. A foretaste

    A foretaste; a taste or sampling of things to come.

    • I know well thou wast foretasting my praise, as I returned to our study with a lively foresmack of thy biscuit.
    • "I have a guardian's right, at least, thou wanton, to strip thee bare and flog thy back and butt till such foresmack of hell has chastened thee."

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA