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smackless

adj

Etymology

From smack + -less. Compare Middle English smakkeles, smechles (“savourless; lacking appeal or gusto”), West Frisian smakeleas (“tasteless”), Dutch smakeloos, smaakloos (“tasteless”), German geschmacklos (“tasteless”), Danish smagløs (“tasteless”), Swedish smaklös (“tasteless”), Icelandic smekklaus (“tasteless; indecent”).

  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 smackless — “smack + less”

Definitions

  1. Lacking smack (all senses)

    • At one period I received sufficient 'smackings' to grow callous, almost careless, about them. After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.
    • threat of violence? This isn't smack. It's the complete opposite of smack. It is in essence, smackless.
    • If r.b.r. output was reduced to bicycle racing news, questions and smackless response, IMO, it would require almost all the current active participants to stop posting.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smackless. 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