smack

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A distinct flavor, especially if slight. countable,uncountable
    — rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon
  2. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
  3. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
    — But without Union reinforcement, as many men as could be packed into a mere fishing smack could take the fort, Meigs wrote to Washington.
  4. A slight trace of something; a smattering. countable,uncountable
    — He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.
  5. The sound of a loud kiss.
    — he took the bride about the neck. And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack.
  6. A group of jellyfish. collective
  7. Synonym of heroin. slang,uncountable
    — Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.
  8. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
  9. A form of fried potato; a scallop. Northern-England,countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To get the flavor of. transitive
    — He soon smacked the taste of physic hidden in this sweetness.
  2. To slap or hit someone.
  3. To have a particular taste; used with of. intransitive
    — 1820-25, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
  4. To make a smacking sound.
    — A horse neighed, and a whip smacked, there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel.
  5. To indicate or suggest something; used with of. intransitive
    — Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.
  6. To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
  7. To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
    — But when, obedient to the mode / Of panegyric, courtly ode / The bard bestrides, his annual hack, / In vain I taste, and sip and smack, / I find no flavour of the Sack.
  8. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
副词 adv.
  1. As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply. not-comparable
    — Right smack in the middle of getting ready to leave.

词形变化

smacks plural smacks present,singular,third-person smacking participle,present smacked participle,past smacked past smacks plural smacks plural smacks present,singular,third-person smacking participle,present smacked participle,past smacked past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
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”).
Cognate with Scots smak (“scent, smell, taste, flavour”), Saterland Frisian Smoak (“taste”), West Frisian smaak (“taste”), Dutch smaak (“taste”), German Schmack, Geschmack (“taste”), Danish smag (“taste”), Swedish and Norwegian smak (“taste”), Norwegian smekke.
词源 2
From Middle Low German smack (Low German Schmacke, Schmaake (“small ship”)) or Dutch smak, perhaps ultimately related to smakken, imitative of the sails' noise.
词源 3
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.
Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)).
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