smack

noun

/smæk/

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. Doublet of smatch (obsolete, “taste”; q.v.), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). Cognate with 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.

inherited from smaken
derived from *smegʰ-,*smeg-✻
inherited from *smakkuz✻ — “a taste”
inherited from *smakku✻
inherited from smæc,smæċċ
inherited from smac,smak,smacke

Definitions

1
A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon
- But take it: if the smack is sour / The better for the embittered hour; […]
2
A slight trace of something
A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.
3
Synonym of heroin.
- Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.
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1. A form of fried potato
  A form of fried potato; a scallop.
2. 5
  To get the flavor of.
  - He soon smacked the taste of physic hidden in this sweetness.
3. To have a particular taste
  To have a particular taste; used with of.
4. 7
  To indicate or suggest something
  To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
  - Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.
  - All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.
5. 8
  A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and…
  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.
6. A group of jellyfish.
7. A sharp blow
  A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
8. 11
  The sound of a loud kiss.
  - he took the bride about the neck. And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack.
9. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
10. To slap or hit someone.
11. 14
  To make a smacking sound.
  - A horse neighed, and a whip smacked, there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel.
12. To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and…
  To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
13. 16
  To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of…
  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.
14. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
15. 18
  As if with a smack or slap
  As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.
  - Right smack in the middle of getting ready to leave.
  - She fell smack on her face.
16. A surname from German.
17. An Apache-based solution stack consisting of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka.

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Derived

foresmack, like smack, smackhead, smackless, fishing-smack, lay the smack down, smack in the face, smack talk, talk smack, gobsmacking, lip-smacking, smackable, smack around, smack down, smackdown, smackee, smacker, smackingly, smack out, smacksman, smack up, smacky, unsmacked

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smack. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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