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"Open-handed hit"2 answers
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Definitions
the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
Word origin
The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”). The verb is from Middle English smaken. Doublet of smatch (obsolete, “taste”; q.v.), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”).
Used in a sentence
“rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon”
“But take it: if the smack is sour / The better for the embittered hour; […]”
“He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Open-handed hit”5 letters
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