smack

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  1. transitive verb To press together and open (the lips) quickly and noisily, as in eating or tasting.
  2. transitive verb To kiss noisily.
  3. transitive verb To strike sharply and with a loud noise.
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  • Yea especially since smack is heroin, not pot. on 02 / 01 / 2009, -0 / +1OH RLY I HAD NO IDEA?!?! —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Local ass hoe talking smack, and she need to pull them damn COW BELLS outta her ears —  Bossip.com
  • Oh, there it is -- smack in the middle of the bathroom floor. —  PoopReport.com
  • In my opinin, the only reason anti-Mormons would come here talking smack is they secretly know the church is true, or they are simply jealous.
  • Darwin, in the end, even knew his smack was a bunch of hooey! —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
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  1. Perhaps of Middle Flemish origin, or perhaps of imitative origin.
  2. Middle English, from Old English smæc.
  3. Dutch or Low German smak, from smakken, to fling, dash.
  4. Probably variant of smeck, from Yiddish shmek, a sniff, swell, from shmekn, to sniff, smell, from Middle High German smecken, smacken, to smell, taste, from Old High German smac, smell, taste.

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  1. Formerly and still dial. assibilated smatch, q. v.; (a) from Middle English smacken, smackien, smaken, from Anglo-Saxon *smacian, smacigan = OFries. smakia = Middle Dutch smaecken, Dutch smaken = Middle Low German smaken, smacken = Old High German smakkēn, smachēn, smahhēn, give forth taste, MHG, smachen, smacken, taste, try, smell, perceive, = Icelandic smakka = Swedish smaka = Danish smage (Scandinavian prob. from Low German), taste; (b) from Middle English smecchen (preterit smeihte, smachte, smauhte, past participle smaught, ismaht, ismeiht, ismecched), have a savor, scent, taste, relish, imagine, understand, perceive, from Anglo-Saxon smeccan, smæccan, smecgan, taste, = OFries. smekka, smetsa = Middle Low German smecken = Old High German smecchan, Middle High German smecken, German schmecken, taste, try, smell, perceive; from the noun. The senses are more or less involved, but all rest on the sense ‘taste.’ The word is commonly but erroneously regarded as identical with smack, as if ‘taste’ proceeds from ‘smacking the lips.’
  2. Formerly and still dial. assibilated smatch, q. v.; from Middle English smak (also assibilated smach), from Anglo-Saxon smæc = Middle Dutch smæck, Dutch smaak = German geschmack = Swedish smak = Danish smag, taste: see smack, v. The Anglo-Saxon swæc, swæce, savor, smell, is a different word.
  3. from Middle English *smacken, from Middle Dutch smacken., Dutch smakken, smite, knock, cast, fling, throw, = Middle Low German smacken = Low German smakken, smack (the lips), = German schmatzen (variant of *schmacken; cf. English smatter), smack, fell (a tree), = Swedish smacka, smack, Swedish dial. smakka, throw down noisily, smäcka, hit smartly, = Danish smække, slam, bang; prob. orig. imitative, not connected with smack, taste, unless ultimately, in the same orig. imitative root. Hence ult. smash. Cf. smatter.
  4. from Middle English *smack = Dutch smak, a loud noise, = German schmatz, a smack, = Swedish dial. smäkk, a light, quick blow, = Danish smæk, a smack, rap: see smack, v.
  5. An elliptical use of smack, v.
  6. from Middle Dutch smacke, Dutch smak = Middle Low German smacke, Low German smak (cf. Danish smakke = Swedish smack = German schmacke = French semaque = Spanish esmaque = Portuguese sumaca, all from D. or Low German), a smack; generally thought to stand for *snack = Anglo-Saxon snacc = Icelandic snekkja = Swedish snäcka = Danish snekke, a small sailing vessel, a smack; cf. Swedish snäcka, Danish snekke = Middle Low German Low German snigge = Old High German sneggo, snecco, Middle High German snegge, snecke, German schnecke, a snail; from the root of English sneak, snake, snail: see sneak, snake, snag, snail. For the interchange of sm- and sn-, cf. swatter.
 

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