(n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
(v. i.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
(v. i.) A small quantity; a taste.
(v. i.) A loud kiss; a buss.
(v. i.) A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
(v. i.) A quick, smart blow; a slap.
(adv.) As if with a smack or slap.
(n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
(n.) To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
(n.) To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
(n.) To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
(v. t.) To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
(v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.
(v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I think that we've got to treat our kids well, but I don't think we ought to say there's no place ever for smacks.
(2) As a parent himself, he steered a deliberate course on discipline (neither he nor his wife ever smacked their girls) and on external influences - the family did not have a television while the children were young, preferring to read.
(3) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(4) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(5) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
(6) As a strategy to enhance Miliband’s standing it was surely flawed and may even smack of desperation, suggesting that their man is locked out of larger media opportunities.
(7) Given what is now known about the way the case was made for launching an arguably illegal war – this country's biggest foreign policy debacle since Suez – Heywood's refusal to release the conversations smacks of a shabby cover-up at worst, or foot-dragging in a moderately more charitable interpretation.
(8) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
(9) One Labour source claimed the appointment of Green smacked of “Andy Coulson mark II”, a reference to Cameron’s decision to appoint the former News of the World editor as his press spokesman despite the reports of phone hacking at the newspaper.
(10) For the right, the word "vulnerable" smacks of victimhood, of ducking blame and not holding individuals accountable for their actions.
(11) For everything that matters, as of now, we are smack in the Post-Information Age.
(12) Evgeniy Khorishko, at the Russian embassy in Washington, also denied the claims, telling Itar-Tass that "such horror stories smack of cold war times".
(13) If we’re going to do this groupthink [a blanket ban] I think it would smack of petulance.” Jones added: “I stand by what Tony Abbott said: it [Q&A] is a lefty lynch mob.
(14) The strained efforts of Merkel and Steinmeier to stage a non-confrontational campaign smacked of a conspiracy of silence.
(15) Elements of both sides were looking for trouble and police were smack in the middle of that and that’s the sort of thing that is going to be problematic for us.
(16) That is some going, even by Fifa standards, though it smacks of incompetence and desperation rather than corruption.
(17) But this is a rare moment of good sense in a document that smacks of tactical manoeuvring – of the kind that may cause the corporation strategic harm.
(18) That smacks of bravado as the capital is around 1,000 miles away and the rebels number only 1,500 to 2,500 – and the Congolese army is about 150,000-strong.
(19) As UFC president Dana White tried to pull the two fighters together, Diaz raised his right hand and McGregor bent his left and smacked it away.
(20) Stirling's attempt to refuse the request, calling it "vexatious", smacks of fear.
Thwack
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump.
(v. t.) To fill to overflow.
(n.) A heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump.
Example Sentences:
(1) He thwacks his machete into a stump to free his hands and reaches over a stone wall, groping for something in the vegetation beneath.
(2) Mancienne strode into midfield and knocked t he ball to Milner, who took it forward and thwacked a fine effort inches over the bar.
(3) The air reverberates with the thwacking sound of a pile driver.
(4) For discontented voters, especially those who feel that globalisation has done nothing for them and those unpersuaded that Brexit would inflict a material cost on their families, the referendum could be a stick with which to give a satisfying thwack to the backsides of the “political elite”.
(5) One woman fights hard, still screaming, occasionally breaking free, running a few paces, only to be brought down again with a brutal thwack.
(6) Granted, there was a considerable amount of luck attached to what happened next when Antonio Valencia’s off-target shot skimmed off Gibbs, still on the floor, to find the net but the thwack between goalkeeper and left-back was just another indication of the chaos that frequently undermines Arsenal’s defence.
(7) The sound of suffering humanity, the scream of a million English roses flailed against the landscape of depression – or a few dozen gladioli thwacked against Morrissey's handsome thigh.
(8) The momentum kept building with every tackle from the steel in midfield, in the shape of Karl Henry and the returning Sandro, with every heartfelt run from Bobby Zamora, every thwacked shot unleashed by Charlie Austin.
(9) • Take a wooden spoon and thwack each half over a bowl until all the seeds have come out.
(10) What most people crave is not the firm thwack of May’s leadership, but a certainty about the future that currently seems beyond their reach.
(11) A merican biologist Kelly Swing thwacks a bush with his butterfly net and a dozen or so bugs and insects drop in.
(12) Even the cliches – which are plentiful – are accompanied by the suspicion that there's something going on beneath the clunkiness, something Profound and Awful that will rear up from the depths and thwack us in the preconceptions.
(13) 2.08pm BST 34th over: Sri Lanka 100-2 (Jayawardene 17, Sangakkara 27) To the soundtrack of groups of children attempting (unsuccessfully) to start Mexican waves (Five, four, three, two, one, WAAAAAHEYYY … [silence] … Five, four, three, two, one, WAAAAAHEYYY … [silence] … Five") it's Plunkett's turn to get thwacked to the boundary – a wide one gets the full treatment from Sangakkara.
(14) 3.33pm BST 33 mins: Quite so... Gary Naylor (@garynaylor999) @NickMiller79 If you're being torn apart by Shola Ameobi, it's a pretty good indication of what needs to be at the top of your shopping list May 11, 2014 3.32pm BST 32 mins: Suarez has a free kick from about 25 yards out, but he thwacks it straight into the wall.
(15) 10.03am GMT 75min: Duarte is thwacked by Duarte and wins a free-kick in the left-hand side of the area.
(16) Golfers thwack balls towards the huge nets of Chelsea Piers.
(17) Now, as I thwack on the TV to buy myself half an hour, or distract the kid while I cut her toenails, I can’t help feeling a sort of internal tug, as though some vital societal fabric is being unravelled because there are images moving across a screen in the living room before lunch.
(18) It's like a real-life cartoon, with all the sound effects – thump, thwack, bang, crash, eek, splat – as they roll, bite each other and tumble slowly off their bamboo platform on to the grass.
(19) While the opposition leader was thwacking on the lycra before sunup, the prime minister had instead fallen into the habit of “comfort eating”.