smake

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English

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Etymology 1

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From dialectal smak, early modern English smake, from Middle English smaken (to taste, sense flavour, detect by taste or smell), from Middle Dutch smaken (to taste).

Verb

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smake (third-person singular simple present smakes, present participle smaking, simple past and past participle smaked)

  1. Synonym of smack (to taste, lick)
    • 1882, Bricktop, The trip of the Sardine Club:
      Even Bill Bitters could not find it in his heart to say a word against this moisture, and he actually smaked his lips, although he turned away lest someone should see him do it.
    • 1893, Margaret Sidney, Five little Peppers Midway:
      Now, that's good," smaking his lips in a pleased way.
    • 1918, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal:
      He smaked his lips in anticipation of the coming treat.
    • 1922, Lucy Fox Robins Lang, Mrs. Lucy Robins, War Shadows:
      It is not a nice place to look at, rough you know,” he smiled, and his right eye winked at Frayne: “But the corned beef and cabbage, and the waffles. Mm!” He smaked his lips with desire.

Etymology 2

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Noun

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smake (plural smakes)

  1. Obsolete form of smack.
    • 1733, Ebenezer Erſkine, The Stone Rejected by the Builders [] :
      One of the great ſources of this evil was, that if a man had beeen[sic] trained up at the feet of Gamaliel for a few years, and got a ſmake of the learning then in vogue, it was enough in their opinion to qualify him for being a builder in the houſe of God []
    • 1856, Edward Augustus Bond, Giles Fletcher, Sir Jerome Horsey, Russia at the close of the sixteenth century:
      A smake there is in other things, but small purpose.

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Verb

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smake

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of smaken

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *smako, from Proto-West Germanic *smakō; compare Middle Low German smāke, Old Frisian smaka.

Noun

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smāke m or f

  1. taste, act of tasting
  2. taste, flavour

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Dutch: smaak
    • Afrikaans: smaak
    • Limburgish: smaak
    • Papiamentu: smak, smaak

Further reading

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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smake

  1. Alternative form of smak

Etymology 2

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Verb

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smake

  1. Alternative form of smaken

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From German Low German smaken.

Verb

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smake (imperative smak, present tense smaker, simple past smakte, past participle smakt, present participle smakende)

  1. to taste (something)
  2. to smack.

Derived terms

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References

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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smake (present tense smakar or smaker, past tense smaka or smakte, past participle smaka or smakt, present participle smakande, imperative smak)

  1. Alternative form of smaka