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Webster 1913 Edition

Smack

Smack

,
Noun.
[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.

Smack

,
Noun.
[OE.
smak
, AS.
ssm[GREEK]c
taste, savor; akin to D.
smaak
, G. ge
schmack
, OHG.
smac
; cf. Lith.
smagus
pleasant. Cf.
Smack
,
Verb.
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

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

Smack

,
Verb.
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[GREEK]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
,
Noun.
]
1.
To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
All sects, all ages,
smack
of this vice.
Shakespeare
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

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Smack

SMACK

,
Verb.
I.
[The primary sense is to throw, to strike, whence to touch or taste;]
1.
To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with violence.
2.
To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting any thing.
3.
To have a taste; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
4.
To have a tincture or quality infused. All sects, all ages smack of this vice.

Definition 2024

smack

smack

English

Noun

smack ‎(plural smacks)

  1. A distinct flavor.
  2. A slight trace of something; a smattering.
  3. (slang) Heroin.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

smack ‎(third-person singular simple present smacks, present participle smacking, simple past and past participle smacked)

  1. (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
    Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.
    • Shakespeare
      All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.
  2. (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
    • Charles Lamb, The Essays of Elia
      He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Smacks in a painting by Carlton Theodore Chapman, ca 1890 (Brooklyn Museum of Art).

From Middle Low German smack (Low German Schmacke, Schmaake ‎(“small ship”)) or Dutch smak.

Noun

smack ‎(plural smacks)

  1. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack.

Translations

Etymology 3

From or akin to Dutch smakken ‎(“to fling down”), Plautdietsch schmaksen ‎(“to smack the lips”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes ‎(“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak ‎(“slap”), Middle Low German smacken, the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje ‎(“smack”)).

Noun

smack ‎(plural smacks)

  1. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
  2. A loud kiss.
    • Shakespeare
      a clamorous smack
  3. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
Translations

Verb

smack ‎(third-person singular simple present smacks, present participle smacking, simple past and past participle smacked)

  1. To slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.
    • Benjamin Disraeli
      A horse neighed, and a whip smacked, there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel.
  2. (New Zealand) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (US spank)
  3. To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
    • 1763, Robert Lloyd, “A Familiar Epistle” in St. James Magazine:
      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.
  4. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
Translations

Adverb

smack ‎(comparative more smack, superlative most smack)

  1. As if with a smack or slap
    Right smack bang in the middle.
Derived terms

Anagrams

Swedish

Noun

smack n

  1. (in the phrase "inte ett smack") smidgeon, piece, small bit

See also

Etymology

From Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæċ ‎(“taste, smatch”), from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz ‎(“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- ‎(“to taste”). Cognate with English dialectal smatch, Scots smak ‎(“scent, smell, taste, flavour”), Saterland Frisian Smoak ‎(“taste”), West Frisian smaak ‎(“taste”), Dutch smaak ‎(“taste”), German Schmack, Geschmack ‎(“taste”), Swedish smak ‎(“taste”). Akin to Old English smæccan ‎(“to taste, smack”). More at smake, smatch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

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