Category:Smack

Smack, n. Etym: [d. smak; akin to lg. smack, smak, dan. smakke, g. Schmacke, f. semaque.] (naut.)

Defn: a small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used Chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

Smack Smack, n. Etym: [oe. smak, as. ssm 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.

Smack Smack, adv.

Defn: as if with a smack or slap. [colloq.]

Smack Smack, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Smacking.] Etym: [oe. smaken to taste, have a taste, -- from the noun; cf. As. smecan Taste; akin to d. smaken, g. schmecken, ohg. smechen to taste, Smachschmatzen 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.

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.