smackless

smackless

English

Etymology

From smack +‎ -less. Compare Middle English smakkeles, smechles (“savourless; lacking appeal or gusto”), West Frisian smakeleas (“tasteless”), Dutch smakeloos, smaakloos (“tasteless”), German geschmacklos (“tasteless”), Danish smagløs (“tasteless”), Swedish smaklös (“tasteless”), Icelandic smekklaus (“tasteless; indecent”).

Adjective

smackless (comparative more smackless, superlative most smackless)

1. (literally and figuratively) Lacking smack (all senses)
   • 1961, Oswald Frewen, Sailor's Soliloquy, page 33:

     At one period I received sufficient 'smackings' to grow callous, almost careless, about them. After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.

   • 1999 February 6, SoleMooCow, “UZ 15 most hated RolePlayers”, in alt.sport.lasertag, Usenet:

     threat of violence? This isn't smack. It's the complete opposite of smack. It is in essence, smackless.

   • 2001 May 18, Mike Gladu, “Passive Racing at the Elite Level - NOT”, in rec.bicycles.racing, Usenet:

     If r.b.r. output was reduced to bicycle racing news, questions and smackless response, IMO, it would require almost all the current active participants to stop posting.

   • 2014 July 9, Faiyaz Kara, “Cooper's Hawk is a wine-country-fied Cracker Barrel”, in Orlando Weekly:

     By comparison, Key lime pie ($6.99) was a more subtle, yet utterly smackless, option.

   1. (slang) Without heroin.
      • 1996, James M. Hawes, A White Merc with Fins, page 57:

        So Suzy and I compared our faultless arms, and exulted in our survival, in our own not wanting to die, in our own smackless pleasure in being just alive.

      • 2004, Des Dillon, The Glasgow Dragon:

        Strung out Junkies wander smackless.

      • 2015, Ron Gridcharts, Make Yourself Uncomfortable, page 71:

        But when I was actually at the gig, my mind wandered feverishly. Like some smackless junkie, I was withdrawing from the nicotine, and it hurt. Lots.

   2. (colloquial) Without kisses.
      • 1914, Once a Year - Volumes 20-23, page 87:

        Oh, Who Could Be So Heartless As To Vote Dry And Leave This Poor Child Bankrupt and His Mamma Smackless?

      • 2002, Holly Millea, Elle - Volume 17, Issues 5-8, page v:

        My lips are lonely. They've been smackless for the good part of a year now and need kissing badly.