smake
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Even Bill Bitters could not find it in his heart to say a word against this moisture, and he actually smaked his lips, although he turned away lest someone should see him do it."
- "Now, that's good," smaking his lips in a pleased way."
- "He smaked his lips in anticipation of the coming treat."
- "It is not a nice place to look at, rough you know,” he smiled, and his right eye winked at Frayne: “But the corned beef and cabbage, and the waffles. Mm!” He smaked his lips with desire."
- "One of the great ſources of this evil was, that if a man had beeen^([sic]) trained up at the feet of Gamaliel for a few years, and got a ſmake of the learning then in vogue, it was enough in their opinion to qualify him for being a builder in the houſe of God […]"
- "A smake there is in other things, but small purpose."
Etymology
From dialectal smak, early modern English smake, from Middle English smaken (“to taste, sense flavour, detect by taste or smell”), from Middle Dutch smaken (“to taste”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: smaken
Usage
Inflected Forms
smakes (present, singular)
smaking (participle, present)
smaked (participle, past)
smaked (past)
smakes (plural)