Meaning

9 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A distinct flavor, especially if slight.

    rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon

    Hauch

    вкусvkus

    смакsmak

  2. (countable, uncountable)A slight trace of something; a smattering.

    Ahnung

    при́вкусprívkus, налётnaljót

    при́смакprýsmak

  3. (slang, uncountable)Synonym of heroin.

    street names for heroin

  4. (Northern England, countable, uncountable)A form of fried potato; a scallop.

  5. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack.

    Schmack

    присма́читиprysmáčyty

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

  6. (collective)A group of jellyfish.

  7. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.

    шлепо́кšlepók

  8. The sound of a loud kiss.

    an enthusiastic kiss

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

Examples

71 sentences
  1. She smacked him across the face.

    deSie knallte ihm eine.

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  2. I'll smack the living daylights out of you!

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  3. Tom smacked his lips.

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  4. I wanted to smack you.

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  5. I saw you smack Tom.

    deIch habe gesehen, wie du Tom eine gescheuert hast.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
distinct flavor:
slight trace of something:
to get flavour:
Русский
By meaning 3
distinct flavor:
slight trace of something:
sharp blow:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
distinct flavor:
slight trace of something:
sailing vessel:

Origin

The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste,

The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”). The verb is from Middle English smaken. Doublet of smatch (obsolete, “taste”; q.v.), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”).

From Middle Low German smack (Low German Schmacke, Schmaake (“small ship”)) or Dutch smak, perhaps ultimately related to smakken, imitative of the sails' noise.

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.

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Forms

plural: smacks
Singularsmack
Pluralsmacks

regular

Synonyms

18 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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