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Definition of Smatch
1. n. Taste; tincture; smack.
2. v. i. To smack.
Definition of Smatch
1. Noun. smack, taste ¹
2. Noun. tincture ¹
3. Noun. trace, small quantity, smidge, smattering or smidgen ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To have a taste, smack. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To have a taste or sample of, smack of, taste. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smatch
1. to smack [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: smack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smatch
Literary usage of Smatch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"... or to have a smatch; a dirty vessel put into milk or cream is supposed to
smatch it; whey burnt in boiling has a smatch, and so on. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"smatch, s. a taste. DELAMERE. When anything contracts a flavour from another ...
"It winna do to put wood i' th' oon while mate's cookin; it'll smatch it. ..."
3. The Folk-speech of South Cheshire by Thomas Darlington (1887)
"... a dirty vessel put into milk or cream is supposed to smatch it; whey burnt in
boiling has a smatch, and so on. ..."
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