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smatch

British  
/ smætʃ /

noun

  1. a less common word for smack 1

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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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If I had but Sam Smatch and his fiddle, I’ll warrant people would say which was the right and which was the wrong way pretty quickly.”

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You play it very well indeed, Miss Julia—that you do; but I wish that you could just hear Sam Smatch with his fiddle—he’d take the shine out of you, I think you’d say.

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The only two, probably, on board who wished to avoid a fight were Sam Smatch and Gregory Gipples, who still remained on board.

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