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SMACK , a See also:general See also:term for a small decked or See also:half-decked See also:vessel, sailing under various rigs and used principally for fishing. The word, like so many See also:sea terms, was borrowed from the Dutch, where smak, earlier smacke, is the name of a See also:coasting vessel; it is generally taken as a corruption of snack, cf. Swed. sndcka, See also:Dan. snackke, a small sailing-vessel, and is to be referred to the See also:root seen in " snake," " See also:snail," the See also:original meaning a gliding, creeping thing. " Smack," See also:taste, and"smack," a See also:smart See also:sounding See also:blow or slap, also used of the See also:sound of the lips in kissing or tasting, must be distinguished. In the first See also:case the word is in O.E. smaec and is See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Dan. smag, Ger. schmecken, &c.; the second word is onomatopoeic, cf. " smash," and is also found in other Teutonic languages. It is not connected with the word meaning " taste," though no doubt confused owing to the sense of smacking the lips. End of Article: SMACKAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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