Obsolete A trace quantity; a smattering or smidgeon.
Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it1599 (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)]:
smatch
verb
Etymology From Middle English smacchen, smecchen (“to taste”), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakkijan (“to taste”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smeh₂g- (“to taste”). Cognate with West Frisian smeitse, smeitsje (“to taste”), Dutch smaken (“to taste”), German schmecken (“to taste”), Danish smage (“to taste”), Norwegian smake (“to taste”), Norwegian smak (“a taste”), Lithuanian smagù (“cheerful, enjoyable, pleasant”).
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Ambitransitive, Obsolete To have a taste; to taste (something).
2
Ambitransitive, Obsolete To have a feeling; to smack (of something).
Allowing his description therein to retain and smatche of veritie1578, John Banister, The Historie of Man, from the most approved Authorities in this Present Age: