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▪ I. smatch, n.1|smætʃ|
Forms: 2 smecch, 3 smech; 4, 6–7 smach, 5–6 smache, smatche, 6– smatch.
[ME. smech, smach, app. an alteration of OE. smæc smack n.1, under the influence of smatch v.]
1. Taste, smack, flavour; † also, the sense of taste.
a1200St. Marher. 9 On his hehe hokede neose þreaste smeorðrinde smoke ut smecche forcuðest. a1225Ancr. R. 94 Þis smech and tis cnowunge kumeð of gostliche sihðe. Ibid. 276 Bitweonen smech muðes and neoses smel. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 461 He hade þe smelle of þe smach & smoltes þeder sone, Fallez on þe foule flesch [etc.]. 1563Langham Gard. Health (1633) 536 Those that be distilled in mettall, haue some smatch of the mettall. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. A v j, But it is not errour forthwith that hath somewhat a bitter smatch, and is unsavory to every queysie stomacke. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme v. xx. 713 The meal of the corne of Champagne, craueth a newer made leauen,..because it hath a smatch of the earth. 1681Grew Musæum iv. i. 353 These Salts have also some⁓what of a Nitrous Tast, but mixed with a smatch of a Vitriolick. a1764R. Lloyd Author's Apol. 92 Whosoe'er, though slightly, sips, Their grateful flavour with his lips, Will find it leave a smatch behind. 1853Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xxv. 148 We had a bottle with a queer smatch the other night. 1892Pall Mall G. 29 Mar. 7/3 Not the least smatch or bad taste has ever been imparted to the liquor.
fig.1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cxxi. 746, I haue yet..this smatch of my wicked bringing up..remayning in mee.
b. A mere tasting. rare.
c1456Pecock Bk. Faith (1909) 205 Whiche bokis, if ȝe wolen rede diligentli..and not forto take an hasti smel or smatche in hem. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxi. xviii, If God should withdraw his grace, when men have tasted but a little smatch of it. 1755T. H. Croker Orl. Fur. xxxiii. iii, The monsters..Which did his victuals spoil,..Nor suffer'd him to taste, or have a smatch.
2. A slight indication, suggestion, or tincture of some quality, etc.
c1525Tale of the basyn 25 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 45 A wyfe that has an yvell tach, Ther of the husbond shalle haue a smache. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke Pref. 6 He hath in sundry woordes and phrases sum smatche of his natiue countrey phrases, that he was borne in. 1628Earle Microcosm. (Arb.) 44 Hee passes the more plausibly because all men haue a smatch of his humour. 1669Holder Elem. Speech 59 Some Nations may be found to have a peculiar Guttural or Nasal smatch in their Language. 1727Philip Quarll 174 A Smatch of that Respect he has forfeited by his fatal Transgression. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 56 Has not your Pegasus some smatch of the qualities of the famous Rosinante? 1788Cowper Let. Wks. 1836 VI. 155 In the style of the lady's note to you, I can easily perceive a smatch of her character. 1808Lamb Charac. Dram. Writ. 531 She speaks the dialect of despair; her tongue has a smatch of Tartarus. 1855[Robinson] Whitby Gloss. s.v., He has gotten a smatch of London in his talk. 1889Archaeol. æliana XIII. 313 A smatch of the old lawless spirit of their ancestors.
b. A slight touch of illness, pain, etc.
1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. xliv. 243 Not that moment when first the Patient felt a Smatch of it. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) I. 143 It was resolved to give him a smatch of the cat-o'-nine-tails. 1865Banks Wakefield Words 65 ‘Hez he gotten t'feaver?’ ‘Noa, bud he's a smatch on it.’
3. A slight knowledge, a smattering, of something. † Also, a slight turn or trial at a thing.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xl. iv, As yit we comprehend it not perfectly, but onely have a little smatch of it. 1628Earle Microcosm. (Arb.) 26 If he haue leasure to be idle..he ha's a smatch at Alcumy. 1703De Foe Reformat. Manners Misc. 102 A little smatch of Modern Blasphemy. 1719― Crusoe ii. (Globe) 549 They have..a Smatch of the Knowledge of the Mathematicks. 1780Cowper Progr. Error 365 We give some Latin, and a smatch of Greek. 1825A. Headley in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1858) II. 66 If you can get Joe Fenwick to give him a smatch of the value of the land it will be of great service to him.
▪ II. † smatch, n.2 Obs.
Also 6 smatche.
[Of obscure origin.]
The wheatear, Saxicola œnanthe.
Turner appears to be the only real authority for the name, and the statement in quot. 1753 is very doubtful.
1544Turner Avium Hist. C vj, κυανός, Cœruleo, Anglicé, a clotburd, a smatche, an arlyng, a steinchek. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Impr. 100 The Clotbird (called sometimes a Smatch, or an Arling) is as big almost as a Thrush. 1668Charleton Onomast. 88 Cæruleo, the Clot-bird, Smatch, or Stone-Check. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Smatch, in zoology, a name by which the common œnanthe is called in many parts of England.
▪ III. † smatch, v. Obs.
Forms: α. 1 -smeccan, 3 smecchen, smechen; pa. tense smeihte, pa. pple. i-smeiht, i-smecched. β. 1 smæccan, 4 smache, 5–6 smacche, 4, 6 smatche, 4, 6–7 smatch (7 smach); pa. tense 3 smachte, 4–5 smauȝt(e; pa. pple. 3 i-smaht, i-smauht.
[OE. (ᵹe)smeccan and smæccan, f. smæc smack n.1 Cf. OFris. smekka, smetsa (WFris. smeitsje), MLG. and LG. smecken, OHG. smecchen (G. schmecken). Finally supplanted by the later smack v.1]
1. intr. To have a (specified) flavour or taste; to smack (in some way).
c1000ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxviii. 166 Sapio, ic wat oððe ic smæcce. a1225Leg. Kath. 1526 Mi swete lif, se swoteliche he smecheð me & smealleð. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 955 Al in smolderande smoke smachande ful ille. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 363 Is non so hungri hounde..Durst lape of þe leuynges, so vnlouely þei smauȝte [C. smauhte]. 1682Hickeringill Black Non-Conf. Wks. 1716 II. 152 Revenge..to a polluted Palate..relishes and smach's more sweet..than Muscadine and Eggs.
b. fig. To smack of something.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 393 Þe whiche smachen of symony and extorcion. c1380― Sel. Wks. II. 226 Many men wenen þat al þes newe sectis..smatchen sumwhat of heresie. 1565Jewel Reply Harding (1611) 327 This terme, All, heere smatcheth of spight. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 22 Allowing his description therin to retain and smatche of veritie. a1604Hanmer Chron. Ireland (1809) 15 The Hebrewes by reason of their peregrination and captivities do smach of the Chaldees, Syriack and Arabick tongues. 1613Day Festivals viii. (1615) 242 The new Cask will ever smatch of that wherewith it hath beene seasoned.
c. trans. To smack of (something).
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 27 So eche secte smatchiþ many synnes. Ibid. 28 Al þes þree sectis mote nedis smatche errour. 1402Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 64 Sith alle that is not groundid smacchith grete synne. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xiv. (Arb.) 140 They smatch more the schoole of common players than of any delicate Poet Lyricke or Elegiacke. Ibid. iii. xix. 243 Such as smatch morall doctrine and teach..good behauiour.
2. trans. To taste, feel the taste of. Also fig.
a1225Ancr. R. 94 Hit is a derne healewi þet no mon ne icnoweð þet naueð hit ismecched. Ibid. 106 He smeihte galle on his tunge, uorto leren ancren þet heo ne gruchie neuermore uor none mete. a1240Ureisun in O.E. Hom. I. 189 Al þet ich abbe..mid muþ ispekin oþer ismaht. c1400Beryn 3122 He held it nat al foly þat Geffrey did clatir,..For parcell of his wisdom to-fore he had smaught.
Hence † ˈsmatching vbl. n. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 64 Spellunge & smecchunge beoð ine muðe boðe, ase sihðe is iðen eien. c1230Hali Meid. 13 Hire fif wittes, sihðe & heringe, smecchunge & smealunge & euch limes felunge. |