[sing.,U] (especially BrE) an act of hitting sb, especially a child, several times with your open hand, as a punishment:
He gave both of the children a good smacking. * We don't approve of smacking. * I'll give you a good smacking when we get home!
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for smacking is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is smacking a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, smacking is tagged as noun.
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