smatch

verb

1. To have a taste; to taste (something).

   obsolete

2. To have a feeling; to smack (of something).

   obsolete

   Allowing his description therein to retain and smatche of veritie

Where it comes from

From Middle English smacchen, smecchen (“to taste”), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakkijan (“to taste”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smeh₂g- (“to taste”). Cognate with West Frisian smeitse, smeitsje (“to taste”), Dutch smaken (“to taste”), German schmecken (“to taste”), Danish smage (“to taste”), Norwegian smake (“to taste”), Norwegian smak (“a taste”), Lithuanian smagù (“cheerful, enjoyable, pleasant”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry smatch (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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