foresmack
English edit
Etymology edit
From fore- + smack (“taste”). Cognate with Dutch voorsmaak (“foretaste”), German Vorgeschmack (“foretaste”), Swedish försmak (“foretaste”).
Noun edit
foresmack (plural not attested)
- (rare, nonstandard) A foretaste; a taste or sampling of things to come.
- 1893, James Vila Blake, More than kin:
- I know well thou wast foretasting my praise, as I returned to our study with a lively foresmack of thy biscuit.
- 1976, Poul Anderson, A midsummer tempest:
- "I have a guardian's right, at least, thou wanton, to strip thee bare and flog thy back and butt till such foresmack of hell has chastened thee."