smekkur.
personal taste
Meaning & usage
personal taste
að (sínum) smekk
eftir (sínum) smekk
sense of taste
the taste of something
fá smekk af e-u
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse -smekkr (in e.g. afsmekkr, “taste”), likely borrowed from Old English smæcc, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz, from Proto-Indo-European *smeg-. First attested in the 1800s. Cognate with English smack, smatch, and smake.
bib (item of clothing for babies tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating)
setja smekk á barnið
vera með smekk
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Danish smække, first attested in c. 1900.
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