The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
smatching
present participle of smatch
• matchings
Source: Wiktionary
Smatch, n. Etym: [OE. smach, smak. See Smack taste.]
Definition: Taste; tincture; smack. [Obs.] Thy life hath had some smatch of honor in it. Shak.
Smatch, v. i.
Definition: To smack. [Obs.] Banister (1578).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 January 2025
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.