foresmack

English

Etymology

Fromfore-+‎smack(“taste”).Cognate withDutchvoorsmaak(“foretaste”),GermanVorgeschmack(“foretaste”),Swedishförsmak(“foretaste”).

Noun

foresmack(plural not attested)

1. (rare,nonstandard)Aforetaste;atasteor sampling of things to come.
   • 1893,James Vila Blake,More than kin:

     I know well thou wast foretasting my praise, as I returned to our study with a livelyforesmackof thy biscuit.

   • 1976,Poul Anderson,A midsummer tempest:

     "I have a guardian's right, at least, thou wanton, to strip thee bare and flog thy back and butt till suchforesmackof hell has chastened thee. "