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单词 smack
释义

smack

See also: Smack

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smæk/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”).The verb is from Middle English smaken.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”), Danish smag (“taste”), Swedish and Norwegian smak (“taste”), Norwegian smekke . Akin to Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). More at smatch.

Noun

smack (countable and uncountable, plural smacks)

  1. A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
    rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon
    • 1873 January 23, Robert Browning, “Part IV”, in Red Cotton Night-Cap Country: Or Turf and Towers, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 1334863325, page 245:
      I did not call him fool, and vex my friend, / But quietly allowed experiment, / Encouraged him to dust his drink, and now / Grate lignum vitæ now bruise so-called grains / Of Paradise, and now, for perfume, pour / Distilment rare, the rose of Jericho, / Holy-thorn, passion-flower, and what know I? / Till beverage obtained the fancied smack.
    • 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “(please specify the poem number)”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906, OCLC 863109715:
      But take it: if the smack is sour / The better for the embittered hour; […]
  2. A slight trace of something; a smattering.
    • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134:
      He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.
  3. (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
    • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 191:
      Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.
  4. (Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.
Derived terms
  • foresmack
  • smackless
  • smackhead
Translations
(slang) heroin — see horse

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To get the flavor of.
    • 1827, Thomas Carlyle (translator), Johann August Musæus, "Melechsala" (1782-86); in German Romance I. 175
      He soon smacked the taste of physic hidden in this sweetness.
  2. (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
    • 1820-25, Charles Lamb, 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.
  3. (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
    Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
      All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.

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, perhaps ultimately related to smakken, imitative of the sails' noise.

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
    • 2009, Simon Schama, The American Future: A History:
      But without Union reinforcement, as many men as could be packed into a mere fishing smack could take the fort, Meigs wrote to Washington.
  1. A group of jellyfish.
Translations

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “smack”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch smacken, of imitative origin.

Akin to German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), 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. The sound of a loud kiss.
    • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
      he took the bride about the neck. And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 178:
      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.
Derived terms
  • smack talk
  • talk smack
Translations

Verb

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

  1. To slap or hit someone.
  2. To make a smacking sound.
    • 1832, Benjamin Disraeli, Contarini Fleming
      A horse neighed, and a whip smacked, there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel.
  3. (especially outside of North America) 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.
    • 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.
  5. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
Translations
to strike a child as a form of discipline — see spank

Adverb

smack (not comparable)

  1. As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.
    Right smack bang in the middle.
Derived terms
  • smack-dab

Further reading

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

  • Macks, macks

Swedish

Noun

smack n

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

See also

  • inte ett smack

Anagrams

  • macks

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English smaken.

Verb

smack

  1. to smack
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5:
      To his sweethearth, an smack lick a dab of a brough.
      To his sweetheart, and smacked like a slap of a shoe.

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 96
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