smooch

Etymology 1

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

noun

  1. (informal) A kiss, especially that which is on the cheek.

verb

  1. (informal, transitive, intransitive) To kiss.
    They smooched in the doorway.
    "Hm. I guess I did agree to go along with whatever her conditions were..." "We smooched on it. No backsies." 6 May 2013, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, May 6, 2013

Etymology 2

noun

  1. Alternative form 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

verb

  1. Alternative form of smutch

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