Meaning

noun a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

noun the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

noun a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast

originThe noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”). The verb is from Middle English smaken. Doublet of smatch (obsolete, “taste”; q.v.), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). Cognate with Scots smak (“scent,…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0