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smackable

adj

Etymology

From smack + -able.

  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. suffixed as smackable — “smack + able”

Definitions

  1. Suitable for smacking.

    • Cherubic little boys; chubby, cheeky and so eminently smackable. Little horrors, of course, the apples, no doubt, of their mothers' eyes and crammed to the brim with every sort of dishonesty and iniquity […]
    • Even today, Azza remains one of the most smackable people I've met in my life.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smackable. 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