smacking
English edit
Verb edit
smacking
- present participle and gerund of smack
Noun edit
smacking (plural smackings)
- A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked.
- children who received regular smackings
Adjective edit
smacking (not comparable)
- That resounds with a loud smack or series of smacks.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 177:
- Ashiepattle said it was something like a whistle, and it was really no bid at all for it, but for her sake he wouldn't mind selling it to her, if she would give him three hundred dollars and a smacking kiss for each dollar in the bargain.