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Smack \Smack\, adv. As if with a smack or slap. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Smack \Smack\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Smacking.]

[OE. smaken to taste, have a taste, -- from the noun; cf. AS. smecan taste; akin to D. smaken, G. schmecken, OHG. smechen to taste, smach?n to have a taste (and, derived from the same source, G. schmatzen to smack the lips, to kiss with a sharp noise, MHG. smatzen, smackzeen), Icel smakka to taste, Sw. smaka, Dan. smage. See 2d Smack, n.]

1. To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.

2. To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.

All sects, all ages, smack of this vice. --Shak.

3. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

4. To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Smack \Smack\, n. [D. smak; akin to LG. smack, smak, Dan. smakke, G. schmacke, F. semaque.]

(Naut.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Smack \Smack\, n. [OE. smak, AS. ssm?c taste, savor; akin to D. smaak, G. geschmack, OHG. smac; cf. Lith. smagus pleasant. Cf. Smack, v. i.]

1. Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.

So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. --Robynson (More's Utopia).

They felt the smack of this world. --Latimer.

2. A small quantity; a taste. --Dryden.

3. A loud kiss; a buss. ``A clamorous smack.'' --Shak.

4. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

5. A quick, smart blow; a slap. --Johnson.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Smack \Smack\, v. t.

1. To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

2. To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.

Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish. --Sir W. Scott.

3. To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. ``She smacks the silken thong.'' --Young.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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