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smack-smooth, a. and adv. Chiefly dial. or colloq.
Also smack smooth.
[f. smack v.2 7 + smooth a.]
1. adj. Perfectly smooth, level, or even with the surface. Now dial.
1755Smollett Quix. IV. 29 Their faces smack-smooth as if they had been clean shaven. 1798Spirit Public Jrnls. (1799) II. 29 In fine, the bleeding trunk, smack smooth, with the head only remaining to the body, was immersed in the styptic. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 634 Smack-smooth, level with the surface; said of a mast which has gone by the board. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. 229/1 Why, it's as smack-smooth as a gress-plat.
b. U.S. (See quot.)
1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. 409 Smack smooth, at the West, a term applied to land which is thoroughly cleared.
2. As complement or adv. So as to leave a smooth or level surface.
1788Dibdin Poor Jack i, Though the tempest top gallant mast smack smooth shall smite. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. i. i, My master..hated trees; down he had them smack, smooth. 1837Marryat Dog-Fiend xxix, A hurricane swept us smack smooth fore and aft.
b. fig. Smoothly; without any impediment or obstruction.
1802H. Martin Helen of Glenross I. 188 A tour in former times was pleasant enough; went on smack smooth, except a rough road, now and then an Alps, or a Pyrenees.
c. dial. In a reckless or random manner; recklessly.
1847–in Lincolnshire dial. |