smatch

/ smætʃ /

noun

Paul had soon to send for Sam Smatch to take his place, as he had plenty of work on deck in repairing damages.

Sam Smatch, too, aided not a little, and his fiddle was in constant requisition to keep up their spirits.

In the style of the lady's note to you I can easily perceive a smatch of her character.

He passes the more plausibly because all men have a smatch of his humour, and it is thought freeness which is malice.

She speaks the dialect of despair; her tongue has a smatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale.

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