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smack

Noun CEFR B2 Standard
smæk

Definitions

  1. An Apache-based solution stack consisting of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka.
  2. A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
  3. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
  4. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
  5. A surname from German.
  6. A slight trace of something; a smattering.
  7. A group of jellyfish.
  8. The sound of a loud kiss.
  9. Heroin.
  10. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
  11. A form of fried potato; a scallop.
    Northern-England, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon”
“I did not call⟳ him fool, and vex my friend, / But quietly allowed experiment⟳, / Encouraged him to dust his drink⟳, and now / Grate lignum vitæ now bruise so-called grains / Of Paradise, and now, for perfume, pour⟳ / Distilment rare, the rose of Jericho, / Holy-thorn, passion-flower, and what know⟳ I? / Till beverage obtained the fancied smack.”
“But take⟳ it: if the smack is sour / The better for the embittered hour; […]”
“He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.”
“I like⟳ my cousins in Holland immensely, but I feel⟳ more sib to the Northerners. Your description of Lofoten is fine. I can see⟳ them. They must be enchanting in their way, cod's head and tails or no. There is a fine eau de Javelle smack about a Dutch canal, by the way, that takes[…]”
“Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.”
“But without Union reinforcement, as many men as could be packed into a mere fishing smack could take⟳ the fort, Meigs wrote to Washington.”
“he took the bride about the neck. And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack.”
“Then he told them of the princess, how she came to him, and how much she had to kiss him to get⟳ the whistle, when nobody saw⟳ or heard it over in the wood - "I must get⟳ on with these lies if the vat is to be full," said Ashiepattle, - so he told them about the queen, how stingy she was with the money and how liberal she was with kisses, that one could hear⟳ the smacks all over the wood.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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