smake
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
smake (third-person singular simple present smakes, present participle smaking, simple past and past participle smaked)
- Misspelling of smack.
- 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 edit
Noun edit
smake (plural smakes)
- 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 edit
Dutch edit
Verb edit
smake
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch *smako, from Proto-West Germanic *smakō; compare Middle Low German smāke, Old Frisian smaka.
Noun edit
smāke m or f
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “smake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “smake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
smake
- Alternative form of smak
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
smake
- Alternative form of smaken
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From German Low German smaken.
Verb edit
smake (imperative smak, present tense smaker, simple past smakte, past participle smakt, present participle smakende)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- smak (noun)
References edit
- “smake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
smake (present tense smakar or smaker, past tense smaka or smakte, past participle smaka or smakt, present participle smakande, imperative smak)
- Alternative form of smaka