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Vinony

smack

noun

  1. sailing ship type
  2. act of smacking the lips together, making a smacking sound
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verb

  1. to strike with open hand
  2. hit
  3. to give an indication, be suggestive of
  4. smack the lips together, making a smacking sound
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adverb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /smæk/

adv

Etymology: From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)).

  1. As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.

    “Right smack in the middle of getting ready to leave.”

    “She fell smack on her face.”

name

Etymology: Possibly an Americanized form of German Schmack.

  1. A surname from German.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)).

  1. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
  2. The sound of a loud kiss.

    “he took the bride about the neck. And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack.”

    “Then he told them of the princess, how she came to him, and how much she had to kiss him to get the whistle, when nobody saw or heard it over in the wood - "I must get on with these lies if the vat is to be full," said Ashiepattle, - so he told them about the queen, how stingy she was with the money and how liberal she was with kisses, that one could hear the smacks all over the wood.”

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

verb

Etymology: From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)).

  1. To slap or hit someone.
  2. To make a smacking sound.

    “A horse neighed, and a whip smacked, there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel.”

  3. To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
  4. To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.

    “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.”

  5. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.