smooch meaning (informal): definition, etymology and quotations

smooch

noun

UK /smuːt͡ʃ/ · CA, US /smut͡ʃ/

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”).

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:

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:

Derived terms: smoochfest, smoochie, smoochiness, smoochsome, smoochy

smooch

verb

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”).

Ambitransitive, Informal To kiss.

They smooched in the doorway.
[…] [Britney] Spears and NSYNCer Justin Timberlake smooching.2000, Adweek, page 5:

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"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:

Dated, Slang 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:

Derived terms: besmooch, smoocher

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