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▪ I. † ˈsmackering, vbl. n.1 Obs.
Also 6 smak-.
[perh. an alteration of smattering vbl. n., after smack n.1 or v.1; but cf. smacker n.3]
1. A slight or superficial knowledge in or of something; a smattering.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 286/1 When a man beginneth to haue some taste and smakering in any matter whatsoeuer, he thinketh himselfe a greate doctour. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1589) 3 After he had indifferently taught his schollers the Latine toong, and some smackering of the Greeke. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. ii. 268, I haue some little smackering also in the Liberall Arts. 1644Bulwer Chiron. 112 As the Satyrist scoffes at those who had a smackering of the Greeke Tongue.
2. An inclination towards, a hankering or longing after or for, a person or thing.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (Sommer) 106 Mopsa (who already had had a certaine smackring towardes me). 1633Ford Love's Sacr. ii. i, The duke has a smackering towards you. 1662Cokaine Trag. Ovid v. iii, I must confess I have some smackering that way. 1687Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, To have a smackering after a Thing. 1727Bailey (vol. II) s.v., To have a Smackering for a Thing, to long for it.
▪ II. † ˈsmackering, vbl. n.2 Obs.—0
[f. smacker v.]
(See quots.)
1598Florio, Bacio, a kisse, a smackering. Ibid., Bichiacco, a smack or smackring with the toong. Bichiacchie, iestes, toyes,..flim-flam tales, smackrings. |