smatch

British  

/ smætʃ /

noun

1. a less common word for smack 1

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Example Sentences

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.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

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.

From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Erasmus, Desiderius

Pay that back, That smatch o' the slaver blistering on your lip— By the better trick, the insult he spared Christ— Lure him the lure o' the letters, Aretine!

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram

She speaks the dialect of despair; her tongue has a smatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

He has some smatch of a scholar, and yet uses Latin very hardly; and lest it should accuse him, cuts it off in the midst, and will not let it speak out.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various