smack

A distinct flavor, especially if slight.

rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon

I did not call him fool, and vex my friend, / But quietly allowed experiment, / Encouraged him to dust his drink, and now / Grate lignum vitæ now bruise so-called grains / Of Paradise, and now, for perfume, pour / Distilment rare, the rose of Jericho, / Holy-thorn, passion-flower, and what know I? / Till beverage obtained the fancied smack.

A slight trace of something; a smattering.

He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.

I like my cousins in Holland immensely, but I feel more sib to the Northerners. Your description of Lofoten is fine. I can see them. They must be enchanting in their way, cod's head and tails or no. There is a fine eau de Javelle smack about a Dutch canal, by the way, that takes[…]

Heroin.

Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.

A form of fried potato; a scallop.

To get the flavor of.

He soon smacked the taste of physic hidden in this sweetness.

To have a particular taste; used with of.

1820-25, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

To indicate or suggest something; used with of.

Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.

All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack

But without Union reinforcement, as many men as could be packed into a mere fishing smack could take the fort, Meigs wrote to Washington.

A group of jellyfish.