Smack

[smæk]

Definition

(noun.) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand.

(noun.) an enthusiastic kiss.

(noun.) a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast.

(verb.) press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating.

(verb.) deliver a hard blow to; 'The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved'.

(verb.) kiss lightly.

(verb.) have a distinctive or characteristic taste; 'This tastes of nutmeg'.

(verb.) have an element suggestive (of something); 'his speeches smacked of racism'; 'this passage smells of plagiarism'.

Typed by Debora--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

(v. i.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.

(v. i.) A small quantity; a taste.

(v. i.) A loud kiss; a buss.

(v. i.) A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

(v. i.) A quick, smart blow; a slap.

(adv.) As if with a smack or slap.

(n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.

(n.) To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.

(n.) 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.

(n.) To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.

(v. t.) To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.

Typed by Arlene

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. [1]. Taste, have a taste, have a flavor.[2]. Have a tincture, have a quality.

n. [1]. Taste, savor, flavor, tang.[2]. Tincture, touch, tinge, dash, spice, infusion, sprinkling, little, small quantity.[3]. Buss, loud kiss.

Editor: Ramon

Definition

n. a generic name for small decked or half-decked coasters and fishing-vessels most rigged as cutters sloops or yawls.

n. taste: flavour: a pleasing taste: a small quantity: a flavour of something.—v.i. to have a taste: to have a quality.

v.t. to strike smartly to slap loudly: to kiss roughly and noisily.—v.i. to make a sharp noise with as the lips by separation.—n. a sharp sound: a crack: a hearty kiss.—adv. sharply straight.—p.adj. Smack′ing making a sharp brisk sound a sharp noise a smack.

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