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Smacking   /smˈækɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Smack  v. t.  
1.
To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
2.
To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting. "Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish."
3.
To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. "She smacks the silken thong."


Smack  v. i.  (past & past part. smacked; pres. part. smacking)  
1.
To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
2.
To have or exhibit and indication or suggestion of the presence of any character or quality; to have a taste, or flavor; used with of; as, a remark smacking of contempt. " All sects, all ages, smack of this vice."
3.
To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
4.
To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.


noun
Smacking  n.  A sharp, quick noise; a smack. "Like the faint smacking of an after kiss."


adjective
Smacking  adj.  Making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.





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"Smacking" Quotes from Famous Books



... and fork down upon his plate. In his elation he forgot the heat, the sticky flies. He forgot his usual custom of abstention during the day. He poured himself out a long drink of really good whisky, which he gulped down, smacking his lips with appreciation before flinging his customary curse at the ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum
... cries of delight and encouragement from the dense circle of spectators, the lady danced round the sham clergyman, dodging his ponderous blows, slipping under his arms, and smacking back at him most successfully. Once she tripped and fell over her own skirt, but was up and at him ...
— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle
... thought, "I must have gripped my knife in my right hand so, and poured my tea into my saucer so. I must have buttered and bit into a huge slice of bread just so, and chewed at it with a smacking sound in just that way. I must have gone to the length of scooping up honey with my ...
— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland
... round. I'm Mr. Lanyon, commonly called Lushy, because? one? me failins: Gunner aboard this packet by rights, and Actin Fust Lieutenant by the grace o God—there bein no one else to act, see? This ere," he continued, smacking the bulwark, "is His—Majesty's—ship—Tremendous, well known and respected between the Lizard and the Nore. Not lookin her sauciest just now, I grant you: shrouds tore to tatters, mizzen spliced, bowsprit splintered, plugged fore and ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant
... sniffed, and descended to the basement, where she relieved her feelings, and conveyed a moral lesson, by smacking the head of her youngest son, who was not wearing his Band of ...
— People of Position • Stanley Portal Hyatt


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