smaak, verb transitive

/smɑːk/
Forms:
Also smaka, smark.
Origin:
Afrikaans.
slang
To fancy, relish, like, be keen on (something or someone).
1963 L.F. Freed Crime in S. Afr. 75They (sc. the ducktails) employed an argot which was peculiarly their own, and to know which was to have the pass-word to their twilight world...‘I don’t smaak that’ meant I don’t like that!
1970 W. Humphries in Forum Vol.6 No.2, 28Ya, she’s not so bad, but I smaak the ones with their padding a little lower.
1975 ‘Blossom’ in Darling 9 Apr. 95If there’s one thing I only smaak on a Saturday arvey, it’s a session at the off-road racing there by Syringa Spa.
1980 R. Govender Lahnee’s Pleasure 31Watch it — you’re getting too personal, the both of you. If you don’t smaak the man’s company, say so.
1981 E. Prov. Herald 28 Apr. 7Todayze kidds..like got no kulchur and smaak essayes fulla bludden gutts.
1981 B. Mfenyana in M. Mutloatse Reconstruction 295Since this is an exploratory and experimental essay, we don’t smaka to turn the reader off..with strings of dates, tone markers, references, statistics and other technicalities.
1984 Frontline May 40I didn’t smaak so much that for lots of the larnies this was a lekker sideshow and a source of light relief.
1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 79Smark, keen (to be keen on someone, something).
1992 S. Gutknecht in Sunday Times 19 Apr. (Mag. Sect.) 28Afterwards we’ll zap round to your pad on my boney. Park off till we get there. Then we can catch a couple of dops and hit the jol. You smaak?
To fancy, relish, like, be keen on (something or someone).
Derivatives:
Hence (nonce) smaaksome  adjective [English adjective-forming suffix -some], tasty, delicious.
1978 E. Prov. Herald 2 Dec. 2Smaaksome braai...After years of practice they’re pretty smart at turning out smaaksome grub, these Lions and their ladies.
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smaaksome
slyt, adjectiveadj.small claims court, noun phrasen. phr.
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