smack

smack
\ \ English has four separate words smack.
\ \ The oldest, ‘taste’ [OE], is now mainly used metaphorically (as in smack ofsuggest’). It has relatives in German geschmack, Dutch smaak, Swedish smak, and Danish smagtaste’, and may be distantly linked to Lithuanian smaguspleasing’. Smackhit’ [16] at first meant ‘open the lips noisily’, and was borrowed from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch smacken, which no doubt originated in imitation of the noise made.
\ \ It was not used for ‘hit with the palm of the hand’ until the mid 19th century. The slang use of the derivative smacker for ‘money’ originated in the USA around the end of World War I. Smacksmall sailing boat’ [17] was borrowed from Dutch smak, a word of unknown origin.
\ \ And smackheroin’ [20] is probably an alteration of schmeckheroin or other drug’ [20], which in turn comes from Yiddish schmecksniff’.

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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