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smooch en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (California) audio
  • /smuːt͡ʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /smʉːt͡ʃ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /smut͡ʃ/ (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

Perhaps from a dialectal variation of smack. Compare also Low German smok (“a kiss, a smouch/smooch”), Alemannic German Schmutz, Schmützle (“a kiss, a smooch”).

Meanings

  1. (informal) A kiss, especially that which is on the cheek.
    • Ideally with exercise at 6am and then schmooches with my daughter Olympia. If I’m lucky I squeeze in a breakfast at Orphans Kitchen with some of my favourite people, and then off to work I go! 2023 November 16 [2019 February 5], “Mimi Gilmour Buckley on building a burger empire”, in Newmarket:
  2. (New-York, derogatory, slang) Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.
    • And tell Nay-Nay come shake up the room Lil Gotti call thotty, that bitch is a smooch (That bitch is a smoochie) 2021 March 18, “Brotherly Love” (track 3, 0:56 from the start), in Dougie B (lyrics), The D.O.A. Tape:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
smouch alternative lexicographic
smooches Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

smoochsome · smoochiness · smoochfest · smoochie · smoochy

Synonyms

munch

Translations (21)

bg целу́вка ((informal) a kiss) · ro țoc ((informal) a kiss) · ru чмок ((informal) a kiss) · ro sărut ((informal) a kiss) · nl bekken ((informal) a kiss) · gl chucho ((informal) a kiss) · ro pup ((informal) a kiss) · it bacio ((informal) a kiss) · de Busserl ((informal) a kiss) · de Bussi ((informal) a kiss) · de Küsschen ((informal) a kiss) · hu puszi ((informal) a kiss) · es beso ((informal) a kiss) · cs pusa ((informal) a kiss) · ca petó ((informal) a kiss) · fi pusu ((informal) a kiss) · cs polibek ((informal) a kiss) · ro pupat ((informal) a kiss) · sv puss ((informal) a kiss) · fi suudelma ((informal) a kiss) · de Schmatzer ((informal) a kiss)

smooch en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (California) audio
  • /smuːt͡ʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /smʉːt͡ʃ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /smut͡ʃ/ (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

Perhaps from a dialectal variation of smack. Compare also Low German smok (“a kiss, a smouch/smooch”), Alemannic German Schmutz, Schmützle (“a kiss, a smooch”).

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To kiss.
    • "Hm. I guess I did agree to go along with whatever her conditions were..." "We smooched on it. No backsies." 2013 May 6, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, May 6, 2013:
    • […] [Britney] Spears and NSYNCer Justin Timberlake smooching. 2000, Adweek, page 5:
    • They smooched in the doorway.
  2. (dated, slang, transitive) To steal.
    • Have either of you ever made a couple of quids at once in your puff before—pinching goods from the back of delivery vans and smooching lead off empty houses? 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
smouch alternative lexicographic
smooches Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
smooching Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
smooched Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
smooched Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

besmooch · smoocher

Translations (21)

it baciare ((informal) to kiss) · fr bécoter ((informal) to kiss) · it fare l'amore ((informal) to kiss) · ro pupa ((informal) to kiss) · it slinguare ((informal) to kiss) · es besar ((informal) to kiss) · ru чмо́кнуться ((informal) to kiss) · fi suudella ((informal) to kiss) · cs muckat se ((informal) to kiss) · it pomiciare ((informal) to kiss) · fi pussata ((informal) to kiss) · it limonare ((informal) to kiss) · csb blancać ((informal) to kiss) · hu puszil ((informal) to kiss) · sv hångla ((informal) to kiss) · ru чмо́каться ((informal) to kiss) · bg целу́вам ((informal) to kiss) · gl chuchar ((informal) to kiss) · ro săruta ((informal) to kiss) · de knutschen ((informal) to kiss) · ro țocăi ((informal) to kiss)

smooch en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of smutch.
    alt of smutch
    • 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! 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
smooches Number=Plur lexicographic

smooch en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of smutch.
    alt of smutch

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
smooched Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
smooched Tense=Past lexicographic
smooching Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
smooches Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic