smatch

smatch means A smack or taste.

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Etymology

From Middle English smacchen, smecchen (“to taste”), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakkijan (“to taste”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smeh₂g- (“to taste”). Cognate with West Frisian smeitse, smeitsje (“to taste”), Dutch smaken (“to taste”), German schmecken (“to taste”), Danish smage (“to taste”), Norwegian smake (“to taste”), Norwegian smak (“a taste”), Lithuanian smagù (“cheerful, enjoyable, pleasant”).

noun

A smack or taste.
A trace quantity; a smattering or smidgeon.e.g.“Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it” — 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] B

verb

To have a taste; to taste (something).
To have a feeling; to smack (of something).e.g.“Allowing his description therein to retain and smatche of veritie” — 1578, John Banister, The Historie of Man, from the most approved Authorities in this Present Age:

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