Foresmack

Origin

From - + smack("taste"). Cognate with Dutch voorsmaak ("foretaste"), German Vorgeschmack ("foretaste"), Swedish försmak ("foretaste").

Full definition of foresmack

Noun

1. A foretaste; a taste or 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 lively foresmack of 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 such foresmack of hell has chastened thee."