Smack vs Rap - What's the difference?

Smack is a related term of rap.

As nouns the difference between smack and rap

is that smack is a distinct flavor or smack can be a small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a or smack can be a sharp blow; a slap see also: spank while rap is rap, rap music (music style).

As a verb smack

is to indicate or suggest something or smack can be to slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.

As an adverb smack

is as if with a smack or slap.

smack

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) smac, smak, smacke, from (etyl) . More at smake, smatch.

Noun

(en noun)

A distinct flavor.

A slight trace of something; a smattering.

* 1883 ,

He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.

(slang) Heroin.

Derived terms

* (l)

Verb

(en verb)

To indicate or suggest something.

Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.

* Shakespeare

All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.

To have a particular taste.

Derived terms

* smack of

Etymology 2

From (etyl) smack (Low German .

Noun

(en noun)

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a .

Etymology 3

From or akin to (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)

A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.

A loud kiss.

* Shakespeare

a clamorous smack

A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

Verb

(en verb)

To slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.

* (Benjamin Disraeli)

A horse neighed, and a whip smacked , there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel.

(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 :

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.

To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.

Adverb

(en adverb)

As if with a smack or slap

Right smack bang in the middle.

Derived terms

* smack-dab

Anagrams

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rap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rap, rappe, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(wikipedia rap)

(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.

The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,

He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap . He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.

(uncountable) Blame (for something).

You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap .

(informal) A casual talk

(uncountable) Rap music.

A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

Synonyms

* (blame) fall

Derived terms

* beat the rap * bum rap * rap music * rap song * take the rap

Etymology 2

From (etyl) rappen, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) .

Verb

(rapp)

To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

* 1845 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "":

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,

He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped' at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he ' rapped again, a little louder than before.

(dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

* Prior

With one great peal they rap the door.

(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

''He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys

He rapped a song to his girlfriend.

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(informal) To talk casually.

Synonyms

* (sense, strike something sharply with one's knuckles) knock

Derived terms

* rap on * rapper

Etymology 3

Uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

(Knight)

Etymology 4

Perhaps contracted from rapparee.

Noun

(en noun)

Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

* Jonathan Swift

Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps .

* Mrs. Alexander

Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap , save with her consent.

A whit; a jot.

I don't care a rap .

That's not worth a rap .

Anagrams

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