smatch

Meanings

Noun

• smack, taste
• tincture
• trace, small quantity, smidge, smattering or smidgen

Verb

• To have a taste, smack.
• To have a taste or sample of, smack of, taste.
• To smack.

Origin

• From Middle English smacchen, smecchen, from Old English smæċċan, from Proto-Germanic *smakkōną, *smakōną, *smakkijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *smeh₂g-. Cognate with West Frisian smeitse, smeitsje, Dutch smaken, German schmecken, Danish smage, Norwegian smake,
• Norwegian smak,
• Lithuanian smagù.