Kiss or Smack - What's the difference?
kiss | smack |
(lb) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to express love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Hekissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
(lb) To touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume.
* (1809-1892)
*:Rose, rose and clematis, / Trail and twine and clasp and kiss .
(lb) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
(lb) To mark a cross (X) after one's name on a card, etc.
A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message.
A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See (w, Hershey's Kisses).
A distinct flavor.
A slight trace of something; a smattering.
* 1883 ,
(slang) Heroin.
To indicate or suggest something.
* Shakespeare
To have a particular taste.
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a .
A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
A loud kiss.
* Shakespeare
A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
To slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.
* (Benjamin Disraeli)
(New Zealand) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (US spank)
To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
* 1763 , Robert Lloyd, “A Familiar Epistle” in St. James Magazine :
To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
As verbs the difference between kiss and smack
is that kiss is to touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to express love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting while smack is to indicate or suggest something.As nouns the difference between kiss and smack
is that kiss is a touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting while smack is a distinct flavor.As a phrase KISS
is acronym of Keep it simple stupid|lang=en.As an adverb smack is
as if with a smack or slap.kiss
English
Verb
(es)Synonyms
* to kiss each other (3) * to kiss one another (3) * See alsoNoun
(es)Derived terms
* ass kissing * blow a kiss * French kiss * good night kiss * kiss and cry * kiss and make up * kiss ass, kiss-ass * kiss chase * kiss goodbye * kisser * kiss my ass/kiss my arse * kiss of death * kiss off * kiss of life * kissogram * kiss the gunner's daughter * kiss the hem of someone's garment * kiss-up * kiss up * soul kiss * tongue kissSee also
* x * xo * xoxo * xoxoxo * xxxAnagrams
* (l) ----smack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) smac, smak, smacke, from (etyl) . More at smake, smatch.Noun
(en noun)- He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.
- All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.
Derived terms
* smack ofEtymology 2
From (etyl) smack (Low German .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From or akin to (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- a clamorous smack
Verb
(en verb)- A horse neighed, and a whip smacked , there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel.
- 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.
