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smacking

verbnounadjectiveattested in dialogue

A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of smackpresent participle and gerund of smack

noun

  1. 1

    A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked.

    children who received regular smackings

adjective

  1. 1

    That resounds with a loud smack or series of smacks.

    Ashiepattle said it was something like a whistle, and it was really no bid at all for it, but for her sake he wouldn't mind selling it to her, if she would give him three hundred dollars and a smacking kiss for each dollar in the bargain.

Forms

plural
smackings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).