Crossword clues for smacking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smack \Smack\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Smacking.] [OE. smaken to taste, have a taste, -- from the noun; cf. AS. smecan taste; akin to D. smaken, G. schmecken, OHG. smechen to taste, smach?n to have a taste (and, derived from the same source, G. schmatzen to smack the lips, to kiss with a sharp noise, MHG. smatzen, smackzeen), Icel. smakka to taste, Sw. smaka, Dan. smage. See 2d Smack, n.]
To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
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To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.
--Shak. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
Smacking \Smack"ing\, n. A sharp, quick noise; a smack.
Like the faint smacking of an after kiss.
--Dryden.
Smacking \Smack"ing\, a. Making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.
Wiktionary
n. A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked. vb. (present participle of smack English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "smacking".
Before the rain commenced, Bowie had heard sounds of the town, but now there was only the smacking of the wind-driven rain against the shocks of old wheat around him and its clatter on the stubbled earth.
Willson and Stiles with hemoom prodoh encasement, lifting them and smacking them against the wall, like the others.
Miss Birchington mentioned to me only the other evening that you are not overly tidy in keeping your section of your dormitory quarters neat and clean, and she has the authority, as you know, to have you report on a Friday afternoon for a good smacking with the tawse or a flogging with the birch.
Fat drops of rain are smacking down harder and faster, sheeting on the unwaxed hood of the Crown Vic.
And very soon loud, smacking kisses, amatory pinches and ticklings, and skittish squeals of pleasure did their work.
Germanic mission in the territories of the Order, and it was only very rarely that locutions smacking too strongly of boy scout turned up in his lectures.
The new-comer planted a smacking kiss on it and fixed Martyn with a china-blue and bulging pair of eyes.
The Toydarian fairly beamed with delight, his reticular snout curling over his toothy mouth and making odd smacking noises.
Troopers evicted the members of a commune in Texas, beating the boys with slapjacks, grabbing handcuffed girls by the pussy, smacking little kids around, and killing the stock, all of which Prairie, breathing deliberately, made herself watch.
Heard the sloppings and smackings, the swash of wet mouths, bedsprings sinking in.
As he planted a smacking buss upon her cheek, Melyssan saw that it was Sir Dreyfan, the face beneath his grizzled beard flushed from too much wassailing, a crown of holly tipped over his brow.
The Atabeg emptied the goblet, smacking his lips loudly in relish, Tatar-fashion.
Supernaturally keen, her sight and senses, aware of the life of small birds, so that she felt she was smacking her lips and almost giggled and broke out of the rapport with the absurdity of it, sudden burning hunger and a desire almost sexual in its ferocity .
Frank Calabrese cried, smacking his youngest son in the back of the head.
More crossbow bolts and firepots were smacking down against the stone around them.