smacking

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of smack

plural smackings

1. A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked.

   children who received regular smackings

1. not comparableThat resounds with a loud smack or series of smacks.

   Ashiepattle said it was something like a whistle, and it was really no bid at all for it, but for her sake he wouldn't mind selling it to her, if she would give him three hundred dollars and a smacking kiss for each dollar in the bargain.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 177