smatchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

smatch (plural smatches)(obsolete)

1. A smack or taste.
2. A trace quantity; a smattering or smidgeon.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it

動詞

smatch (third-person singular simple present smatches, present participle smatching, simple past and past participle smatched)(ambitransitive, obsolete)

1. To have a taste; to taste (something).
2. To have a feeling; to smack (of something).
   • 1578, John Banister, The Historie of Man, from the most approved Authorities in this Present Age:

     Allowing his description therein to retain and smatche of veritie

参照

• “smatch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Machts, Maths C