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Smacking

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smack⋅ing

  [smak-ing]
Use Smacking in a Sentence
–adjective
1. smart, brisk, or strong, as a breeze.
2. Chiefly British Slang. smashing.
Origin:
1585–95; smack 2 + -ing 2

Related forms:
smack⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

smack

1  [smak]
–noun
1. a taste or flavor, esp. a slight flavor distinctive or suggestive of something: The chicken had just a smack of garlic.
2. a trace, touch, or suggestion of something.
3. a taste, mouthful, or small quantity.
–verb (used without object)
4. to have a taste, flavor, trace, or suggestion: Your politeness smacks of condescension.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME smacke, OE smæc; c. MLG smak, G Geschmack taste; (v.) ME smacken to perceive by taste, have a (specified) taste, deriv. of the n.; cf. G schmacken

Synonyms:
1. savor. 2. hint. 4. taste, suggest.

smack

2  [smak]
–verb (used with object)
1. to strike sharply, esp. with the open hand or a flat object.
2. to drive or send with a sharp, resounding blow or stroke: to smack a ball over a fence.
3. to close and open (the lips) smartly so as to produce a sharp sound, often as a sign of relish, as in eating.
4. to kiss with or as with a loud sound.
–verb (used without object)
5. to smack the lips.
6. to collide, come together, or strike something forcibly.
7. to make a sharp sound as of striking against something.
–noun
8. a sharp, resounding blow, esp. with something flat.
9. a smacking of the lips, as in relish or anticipation.
10. a resounding or loud kiss.
–adverb Informal.
11. suddenly and violently: He rode smack up against the side of the house.
12. directly; straight: The street runs smack into the center of town.
Origin:
1550–60; imit.; cf. D, LG smakken, G (dial.) schmacken
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smack 1   (smāk)   
v.   smacked, smack·ing, smacks

v.   tr.

  1. To press together and open (the lips) quickly and noisily, as in eating or tasting.

  2. To kiss noisily.

  3. To strike sharply and with a loud noise.

v.   intr.

  1. To make or give a smack.

  2. To collide sharply and noisily: The ball smacked against the side of the house.

n.  

  1. The loud sharp sound of smacking.

  2. A noisy kiss.

  3. A sharp blow or slap.

adv.  

  1. With a smack: fell smack on her head.

  2. Directly: "We were smack in the middle of another controversy about a public man's personal life" (Ellen Goodman).


[Perhaps of Middle Flemish origin, or perhaps of imitative origin.]
smack 2   (smāk)   
n.  

    1. A distinctive flavor or taste.

    2. A suggestion or trace.

  2. A small amount; a smattering.

intr.v.   smacked, smack·ing, smacks

  1. To have a distinctive flavor or taste. Used with of.

  2. To give an indication; be suggestive. Often used with of: "an agenda that does not smack of compromise" (Time).


[Middle English, from Old English smæc.]
smack·ing   (smāk'ĭng)   
adj.  Brisk; vigorous; spanking: a smacking breeze.
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Word Origin & History

smack  (n.1)
"taste, flavor," now mainly in verbal figurative use smacks of ... (first attested 1595), from O.E. smæc, from P.Gmc. *smak- (cf. O.Fris. smek, Du. smaak, O.H.G. smac, Ger. Geschmack); probably related to Lith. smaguriai "dainties," smagus "pleasing." Meaning "a trace (of something)" is attested from 1539.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

smack (smāk)
n.
Heroin.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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