smatch

/ smætʃ /

noun

1. a less common word for smack 1

Example Sentences

As nature in her dispensation of conceited-ness has dealt with private persons, so has she given a particular smatch of self-love to each country and nation.

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For my own part I have always held him high, though there is a smatch about his morality which I would rather not have there.

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We’ll send him down below, as we used to do in the old Terrible, with Sam Smatch.

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Carriages sufficient to carry all the party now began to collect in the neighbourhood of Paradise Row; and Sam Smatch and Tom Marline, both of whom had got leave to come on shore, were very busy in fastening huge white favours and bunches of flowers to the coats of the party.

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On the box of the third carriage sat Sam Smatch, fiddle in hand, playing away most lustily, and occasionally firing off a bow or stern-chaser of jokes at the other carriages with a peculiar loud cackling laugh which none but negroes can produce.

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