smooch
English
editEtymology 1
editPerhaps from a dialectal variation of smack. Compare also Low German smok (“a kiss, a smouch/smooch”), Alemannic German Schmutz, Schmützle (“a kiss, a smooch”).
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editNoun
editsmooch (plural smooches)
- (informal) A kiss, especially that which is on the cheek.
- (New York, slang, derogatory) Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.
- Synonym: munch
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edit(informal) a kiss
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Verb
editsmooch (third-person singular simple present smooches, present participle smooching, simple past and past participle smooched)
- (informal, transitive, intransitive) To kiss.
- They smooched in the doorway.
- 2013 May 6, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, May 6, 2013:
- "Hm. I guess I did agree to go along with whatever her conditions were..." "We smooched on it. No backsies."
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edit(informal) to kiss
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Etymology 2
editNoun
editsmooch (plural smooches)
- Alternative form of smutch
- 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper:
- Then she said that the paper stained everything it touched, that she had found yellow smooches on all my clothes and John's, and she wished we would be more careful!
Verb
editsmooch (third-person singular simple present smooches, present participle smooching, simple past and past participle smooched)
- Alternative form of smutch
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