smooch

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”).

• smouch

• IPA^(key): /smuːt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -uːtʃ

smooch (plural smooches)

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

• smoochies
• smoochiness
• smoochy

smooch (third-person singular simple present smooches, present participle smooching, simple past and past participle smooched)

1. (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."

• besmooch
• smoocher

smooch (plural smooches)

1. 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!

smooch (third-person singular simple present smooches, present participle smooching, simple past and past participle smooched)

1. Alternative form of smutch

• chomos, schmoo