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Smacking   /smˈækɪŋ/   Listen
Smacking

noun
1.
The act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand.  Synonyms: slap, smack.



Smack

verb
(past & past part. smacked; pres. part. smacking)
1.
Deliver a hard blow to.  Synonym: thwack.
2.
Have an element suggestive (of something).  Synonyms: reek, smell.  "This passage smells of plagiarism"
3.
Have a distinctive or characteristic taste.  Synonym: taste.
4.
Kiss lightly.  Synonym: peck.
5.
Press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating.



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"Smacking" Quotes from Famous Books



... negligence of certain precautions at birth—this may have been a case of that kind. We consider any attempt to attribute physical infirmities to "sin" unconnected with the physical trouble to be a reversion to primitive theological dogmas, and smacking strongly of the "devil idea" of theology, of which we have spoken. And Poverty results from economic conditions, and not as punishment for "Sin." Nor is Wealth the ...
— Reincarnation and the Law of Karma - A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect • William Walker Atkinson

... busy making their community dwellings and when Mother Bruin paused to lick up a mouthful, two little red tongues joined hers, the cubs smacking their lips over the treat. At length, their hunger satisfied, the family stopped under a great pine and the cubs began a rough and tumble game, while Mother Bruin sat on her haunches, keenly watchful of every move. ...
— Followers of the Trail • Zoe Meyer

... to the spot where the sun stands in the heavens,—that your catarrh grows so alarming, that in a fit of despondency you trundle yourself aboard a ship in the Downs getting under way for a warmer climate. Suppose, that after a smacking run of about eight days before a fresh gale, (during the whole of which you are of course too sick and qualmy to leave your cot,) you awake one morning, and find yourself snugly at anchor in the bay of Funchal; and the romantic, sun-bright mountains of Madeira, gorgeously ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 274, Saturday, September 22, 1827 • Various

... face a sharp smack, and I was engaged too, and directly after Gunson was smacking his hands and legs, for a cloud of mosquitoes had found us out, and were increasing in ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn

... grant him Bloody, Luxurious, Auaricious, False, Deceitfull, Sodaine, Malicious, smacking of euery sinne That ha's a name. But there's no bottome, none In my Voluptuousnesse: Your Wiues, your Daughters, Your Matrons, and your Maides, could not fill vp The Cesterne of my Lust, and my Desire All continent Impediments would ore-beare ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare


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