Smack vs Sharpie - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between smack and sharpie

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 sharpie is an alert person.

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

* ----

sharpie

English

Alternative forms

* (member of an Australian youth gang) sharp

Noun

(wikipedia sharpie) (en noun)

An alert person. (rfex)

(US, regional) A knowledgeable fisherman.

* 1976 December, Ken Schultz, Field & Stream Fishing Contest Winners: Nothing but the Best , , page 78,

Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie .

In New York and New Jersey coastal fishing parlance a “sharpie” is one who fishes seven days a week all summer long, selling his fish to the market to make a living. Sharpies supposedly have fishing down to a science, to such a degree that they only go to particular places, at particular times, using particular fishing methods, and come back with a boatload of fish while everyone else wonders in amazement.

(US) A swindler.

*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 102:

*:Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money.

(US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.

* 1995 , Rodney Barfield, Seasoned by Salt: A Historical Album of the Outer Banks , page 168,

He brought this pair of sharpies , the Lucia'' and the ''Ella , to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat.

The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vesel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.

* 2006 , Greg Rössel, The Boatbuilder's Apprentice , page 293,

On the other end of the spectrum are the flat-bottomed sharpies'. The earliest ' sharpies were developed in the mid-nineteenth century as the ideal boats for the oyster fishery of the Connecticut shore.

(birdwatching)

* 2005 , Bill Thompson, Eirik A. T. Blom, Jeffrey A. Gordon, Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges , page 93,

It is harder to gauge the shorter tail of sharpies', but on sitting birds the tail shape is a more useful character than it is on flying birds. ' Sharpies of all ages and sexes almost always show a notched tail when they are sitting.

* 2010 , Era S. VanDenburg, The Natural World of Ivy Lane , page 48,

My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie .

(Australia) A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.

* 2006 , Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970 , page 47,

The Circle Ballroom in High Street Preston was another popular sharpie' hang-out.' Sharpies were all deep drinkers.

A felt-tipped marker pen.