Smack vs Smake - What's the difference?
smack | smake |
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.
To smack; taste.
*1882 , Bricktop, The trip of the Sardine Club :
* 1893 , Margaret Sidney, Five little Peppers Midway :
* 1918 , Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal :
*1922 , Lucy Fox Robins Lang, Mrs. Lucy Robins, War Shadows :
* 2001 , James Joyce, Dubliners :
A smack; taste; scent.
* 1831 , Congressional edition:
* 1856 , Edward Augustus Bond, Giles Fletcher, Sir Jerome Horsey, Russia at the close of the sixteenth century :
As nouns the difference between smack and smake
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 smake is a smack; taste; scent.As verbs the difference between smack and smake
is that smack is to indicate or suggest something or smack can be to slap someone, or to make a smacking sound while smake is to smack; taste.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)- 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.
Derived terms
* smack-dabAnagrams
* ----smake
English
Verb
(smak)- Even Bill Bitters could not find it in his heart to say a word against this moisture, and he actually smaked his lips, although he turned away lest someone should see him do it.
- Now, that's good," smaking his lips in a pleased way.
- He smaked his lips in anticipation of the coming treat.
- It is not a nice place to look at, rough you know,” he smiled, and his right eye winked at Frayne: “But the corned beef and cabbage, and the waffles. Mm!” He smaked his lips with desire.
- "And what about the address to the King?" said Mr. Lyons, after drinking and smaking his lips.
Noun
(en noun)- The 15th we came to Hatorask, in thirty-six degrees and a terse, at four fadom, three leagues from the shore, where we might perceive a smake at the place where I left the colony, 1587."
- A smake there is in other things, but small purpose.