1560s, originally "weak beer;" used figuratively of small things or trifling matters. Small with the meaning "of low alcoholic content" is attested from mid-15c.
slyness
smack
smacker
smaik
small
small beer
smallish
small-mouth
smallness
smallpox
small-time
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