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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



... all sides; and I can assure you, that, after standing on tiptoe for an hour in the heat and straining your neck and head to get sight of some Church procession, you are glad enough to go to the extravagance of even a lemonade with sugar; and smacking your lips, you bless the institution of the limonaro as one which must have been early instituted by the Good Samaritan. Listen to his own description of himself in one of the popular canzonetti sung about the streets by wandering ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 31, May, 1860 • Various
... on in silence and, still deep in thought over the matter, turned into a neighboring tavern for refreshment. Mr. Henshaw drank his with the air of a man performing a duty to his constitution; but Mr. Stokes, smacking his lips, waxed ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... in close places before now—close places when something smacking of violence had occurred—and he knew or felt he knew what next would happen to give him the precious grace of seconds and perhaps of minutes. Those who came foremost upon the scene would, through caution, hesitate for a brief space of time before ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... They had become children, with children's fear of the dark. Even the doughty Angel Todd was oppressed by the first horror of the situation, speaking only when spoken to. Above the rushing sound of wind and the smacking of short seas could be heard the voice of the steward in the cabin, while an occasional heart-borne malediction or groan—according to temperament—added to the distraction on deck. One man, more self-possessed than the rest, had dropped the lead over the side. An able seaman needs no ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson
... notwithstanding the incivility of the statement, . . it is most certain that His Most Potent Majesty as well as His Majesty's Most Potent Laureate, MUST..DIE.. !" And he accompanied the words "must..die..." with two decisive taps of his staff, smacking his withered lips meanwhile as though he tasted something ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli


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