A SMACK IN THE FACE (OR EYE)

Meaning of A SMACK IN THE FACE (OR EYE) in English

a smack in the face ( or eye)

informal

a strong rebuff.

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Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

EYE — I Organ that receives light and visual images. Non-image forming, or direction, eyes are found among worms, mollusks, cnidarians, echinoderms, …
Английский словарь Британика
SMACK — I. ˈsmak noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English smæc; akin to Old Frisian smek, smaka taste, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
OR — I. _ə(r), (|)ȯ(ə)r, (|)ȯ(ə), in southern US also (|)ä(r) conjunction Etymology: Middle English other, or, from Old English oththe, oththa, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
IN — I. (|)in, ən; usu ə n after t, d, s, or z as in “split in two”, often ə m …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FACE — I. ˈfās noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin facia, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EYE — I. ˈī noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English eie, eye, eighe, from Old English ēage; akin to Old High …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SMACK — smack 1 /smak/ , n. 1. a taste or flavor, esp. a slight flavor distinctive or suggestive of something: The …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FACE — — faceable , adj. /fays/ , n. , v. , faced, facing . n. 1. the front part of the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EYE — — eyeable , adj. — eyelike , adj. — eyer , n. /uy/ , n. , pl. eyes , ( …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SMACK — I. ˈsmak noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English smæc; akin to Old High German smac taste and probably to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FACE — I. ˈfās noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin * facia, from Latin facies make, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
EYE — I. ˈī noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ēage; akin to Old High German ouga eye, Latin oculus, Greek …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SMACK — vi a loud kiss; a buss. 2. smack ·vi a small quantity; a taste. 3. smack ·adv as if with …
Webster English vocab
FACE — vi to present a face or front. 2. face ·noun the style or cut of a type or font of …
Webster English vocab
EYE — noun tinge; shade of color. 2. eye ·noun a brood; as, an eye of pheasants. 3. eye ·noun the hole …
Webster English vocab
SMACK — [smack] n [ME, fr. OE smaec; akin to OHG smac taste and prob. to Lith smaguris sweet tooth] (bef. 12c) …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
EYE — [eye] n [ME, fr. OE eage; akin to OHG ouga eye, L oculus, Gk ops eye, face, Skt aksi eye] …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
EYE — specialized sensory organ capable of light reception and, in vertebrate animals, able to receive visual images that are then carried …
Britannica English vocabulary
SMACK — / smæk; NAmE / verb , noun , adverb ■ verb 1. [ vn ] ( especially BrE ) to …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FACE — / feɪs; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun FRONT OF HEAD 1. the front part of the head between …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EYE
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SMACK — I. smack 1 /smæk/ BrE AmE verb [transitive] [ Date: 1400-1500 ; Origin: Perhaps from Middle Dutch smacken 'to hit' …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
OR — or S1 W1 /ə; strong ɔː $ ər strong ɔːr/ BrE AmE conjunction [ Language: Old English ; Origin: oththe …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FACE — I. face 1 S1 W1 /feɪs/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: Latin …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
EYE — I. eye 1 S1 W1 /aɪ/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: eage ] 1 . FOR …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SMACK — v. & n. (foll. by of) --v.intr. 1 have a flavour of; taste of (smacked of garlic). 2 suggest the …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SMACK — n., v., & adv. --n. 1 a sharp slap or blow esp. with the palm of the hand or a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
OR — conj. 1 a introducing the second of two alternatives (white or black). b introducing all but the first, or only …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FACE — n. & v. --n. 1 the front of the head from the forehead to the chin. 2 the expression of …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
EYE — n. & v. --n. 1 a the organ of sight in man and other animals. b the light-detecting organ in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SMACK — v. & n. (foll. by of) v.intr. 1 have a flavour of; taste of (smacked of garlic). 2 suggest the …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SMACK — n., v., & adv. n. 1 a sharp slap or blow esp. with the palm of the hand or a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
OR — conj. 1 a introducing the second of two alternatives (white or black). b introducing all but the first, or only …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FACE — n. & v. n. 1 the front of the head from the forehead to the chin. 2 the expression of …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
EYE — n. & v. n. 1 a the organ of sight in man and other animals. b the light-detecting organ in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SMACK — 1. n., v., & adv. --n. 1. a sharp slap or blow esp. with the palm of the hand or …
Oxford English vocab
OR — 1.conj. 1. a introducing the second of two alternatives (white or black). b introducing all but the first, or only …
Oxford English vocab
FACE — n. & v. --n. 1. the front of the head from the forehead to the chin. 2 the expression of …
Oxford English vocab
EYE — n. & v. --n. 1. a the organ of sight in man and other animals. b the light-detecting organ in …
Oxford English vocab
FACE — I. NOUN USES /feɪs/ ( faces) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Please …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SMACK — ( smacks, smacking, smacked) 1. If you smack someone, you hit them with your hand. She smacked me on the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OR — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use or to link two …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EYE — ( eyes, eyeing, or eying, eyed) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SMACK — (~s, ~ing, ~ed) 1. If you ~ someone, you hit them with your hand. She ~ed me on the side …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SMACK
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
OR
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FACE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
EYE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SMACK — (DIRECTLY), UK also smack-bang, US also smack-dab [adverb] [not gradable] - directly and forcefully, producing a brief loud noiseI wasn't …
Cambridge English vocab
EYE — [noun] [C] - one of the pair of organs of seeing in the faces of humans and animalsThey hoped the …
Cambridge English vocab
EYE — See: APPLE OF ONE'S EYE, BAT AN EYE or BAT AN EYELASH, BELIEVE ONE'S EYES, CATCH ONE'S EYE, CLEAR-EYED, CLOSE …
Slang English vocab
SMACK
Slang English vocab
SMACK — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ firm ( BrE ), good , hard ▪ light ▪ loud , resounding ▪ He landed …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SMACK — n. 25B6; noun the beer has a smack of hops : TASTE, flavour, savour. a smack of bitterness in his …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SMACK — n. 25B6; noun she gave him a smack : SLAP, clout, cuff, blow, spank, rap, swat, crack, thump, punch; informal …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FACE — n. 1 visage, countenance, physiognomy, features, lineaments, Slang mug, mush, kisser, pan, puss, Brit phiz, phizog, dial, clock I don't …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
EYE — See: APPLE OF ONE'S EYE, BAT AN EYE or BAT AN EYELASH, BELIEVE ONE'S EYES, CATCH ONE'S EYE, CLEAR-EYED, CLOSE …
Словарь английских идиом
SMACK — I 1. сущ. 1) вкус; привкус; аромат, запах Syn : taste 1., flavour 1. 2) перен. привкус, след, налет; признак; …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
OR — I союз или, иначе Make haste or else you will be late. ≈ Торопитесь, иначе вы опоздаете. or so ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FACE — 1. сущ. 1) а) лицо; физиономия; лик to look smb. in the face ≈ смотреть кому-л. в глаза to powder …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
EYE
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SMACK — _I 1. smæk n 1. вкус, привкус; запах smack of garlic - привкус /запах/ чеснока smack of resin was in …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
OR — or.ogg _I ɔ: n геральд. цвет золота _II ɔ:,ə cj 1. связывает два или несколько предложений или однородных членов предложения, …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
IN — in.ogg 1. ın n 1. 1> (the ins) pl парл. разг. политическая партия, находящаяся у власти см. тж. 2> обыкн. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

Concise Oxford English vocab

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