smake

From Middle English smaken (“to smack, taste”), partly from Old English smacian (“to smack, pat, caress”) and partly from Middle English smake, smac (“smack, taste, flavour”), from Old English smæc, smæcc (“taste, flavour”). Cognate with Scots smak (“to taste, scent, smell”). More at smack, smatch.

smake (third-person singular simple present smakes, present participle smaking, simple past and past participle smaked)

1. (transitive) To smack; taste.
   • 1882, Bricktop, The trip of the Sardine Club:

     Even Bill Bitters could not find it in his heart to say a word against this moisture, and he actually smaked his lips, although he turned away lest someone should see him do it.

   • 1893, Margaret Sidney, Five little Peppers Midway:

     Now, that's good," smaking his lips in a pleased way.

   • 1918, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal:

     He smaked his lips in anticipation of the coming treat.

   • 1922, Lucy Fox Robins Lang, Mrs. Lucy Robins, War Shadows:

     It is not a nice place to look at, rough you know,” he smiled, and his right eye winked at Frayne: “But the corned beef and cabbage, and the waffles. Mm!” He smaked his lips with desire.

   • 2001, James Joyce, Dubliners:

     "And what about the address to the King?" said Mr. Lyons, after drinking and smaking his lips.

smake (plural smakes)

1. A smack; taste; scent.
   • 1733, Ebenezer Erskine, The Stone Rejected by the Builders:

     One of the great sources of this evil was, that if a man had beeen^[sic] trained up at the feet of Gamaliel for a few years, and got a smake of the learning then in vogue, it was enough in their opinion to qualify him for being a builder in the house of God […]

   • 1856, Edward Augustus Bond, Giles Fletcher, Sir Jerome Horsey, Russia at the close of the sixteenth century:

     A smake there is in other things, but small purpose.

• Masek, Samek, kames, makes, meaks, samek

smake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of smaken

smāke m or f

1. taste, act of tasting
2. taste, flavour

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: smaak
  • → Limburgish: smaak

• “smake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “smake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• smak

From smaken (“to taste”) from smak "a taste, flavor" from Old English smæc (“taste, smack”). More at smack.

smake

1. taste
2. flavor

• smakeles, smakkeles

From German Low German smaken

smake (imperative smak, present tense smaker, simple past smakte, past participle smakt, present participle smakende)

1. to taste (something)

• smakebit

• smak (noun)

• “smake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

smake (present tense smakar or smaker, past tense smaka or smakte, past participle smaka or smakt, present participle smakande, imperative smak)

1. Alternative form of smaka