smacking

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smacking

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of smack

noun smackings

  1. A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked. children who received regular smackings

adjective

  1. not comparable 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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: slap, lip, slapping, spank, swack, lipsmack, smacker, smatch, lip-smacking, smake, thwack, poppism, happy slapping, happy slap, splatting, dickslap

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@misc{smacking_2026,
  title = {smacking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smacking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}