smackless
English
Etymology
From smack + -less. Compare Middle English smakkeles, smechles (“savourless; lacking appeal or gusto”), West Frisian smakeleas (“tasteless”), Dutch smakeloos, smaakloos (“tasteless”), German geschmacklos (“tasteless”), Danish smagløs (“tasteless”), Swedish smaklös (“tasteless”), Icelandic smekklaus (“tasteless; indecent”).
Adjective
smackless (comparative more smackless, superlative most smackless)
- (literally and figuratively) Lacking smack (all senses)
- 1961, Oswald Frewen, Sailor's Soliloquy, page 33:
- At one period I received sufficient 'smackings' to grow callous, almost careless, about them. After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.
- 1999 February 6, SoleMooCow, “UZ 15 most hated RolePlayers”, in alt.sport.lasertag, Usenet:
- threat of violence? This isn't smack. It's the complete opposite of smack. It is in essence, smackless.
- 2001 May 18, Mike Gladu, “Passive Racing at the Elite Level - NOT”, in rec.bicycles.racing, Usenet:
- If r.b.r. output was reduced to bicycle racing news, questions and smackless response, IMO, it would require almost all the current active participants to stop posting.
- 2014 July 9, Faiyaz Kara, “Cooper's Hawk is a wine-country-fied Cracker Barrel”, in Orlando Weekly:
- By comparison, Key lime pie ($6.99) was a more subtle, yet utterly smackless, option.
- (slang) Without heroin.
- 1996, James M. Hawes, A White Merc with Fins, page 57:
- So Suzy and I compared our faultless arms, and exulted in our survival, in our own not wanting to die, in our own smackless pleasure in being just alive.
- 2004, Des Dillon, The Glasgow Dragon:
- Strung out Junkies wander smackless.
- 2015, Ron Gridcharts, Make Yourself Uncomfortable, page 71:
- But when I was actually at the gig, my mind wandered feverishly. Like some smackless junkie, I was withdrawing from the nicotine, and it hurt. Lots.
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- (colloquial) Without kisses.
- 1914, Once a Year - Volumes 20-23, page 87:
- Oh, Who Could Be So Heartless As To Vote Dry And Leave This Poor Child Bankrupt and His Mamma Smackless?
- 2002, Holly Millea, Elle - Volume 17, Issues 5-8, page v:
- My lips are lonely. They've been smackless for the good part of a year now and need kissing badly.
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