A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
But without Union reinforcement, as many men as could be packed into a mere fishing smack could take the fort, Meigs wrote to Washington.
A sharp blow; a slap. .
To get the flavor of.
He soon smacked the taste of physic hidden in this sweetness.
To have a particular taste; used with of.
As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.
Right smack in the middle of getting ready to leave.
A surname from German.
An Apache-based solution stack consisting of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka.
The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European...
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1820-25, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
To slap or hit someone.