Lacking smack (all senses
At one period I received sufficient 'smackings' to grow callous, almost careless, about them. After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.
From smack + -less. Compare Middle English smakkeles, smechles (“savourless; lacking appeal or gusto”), West Frisian smakeleas (“tasteless”), Dutch smakeloos, smaakloos (“tasteless”), German geschmack...
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