smack

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SMACK, verb intransitive [The primary sense is to throw, to strike, whence to touch or taste; ] 1. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with violence. 2. To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting any thing. 3. To have a taste; to be tinctured with any particular taste. 4. To have a tincture or quality infused. All sects, all ages smack of this vice. SMACK, verb transitive 1. To kiss with a sharp noise. 2. To make a sharp noies with the lips. 3. To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. SMACK, noun 1. A loud kiss 2. A quick sharp noise, as of the lips or of a whip. 3. Taste; savor; tinture. 4. Pleasing taste. 5. A quick smart blow. 6. A small quantity; a taste. 7. A small vessel, commonly rigged as a cutter, used in the coasting and fishing trade.
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