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smooch

UK/smuːt͡ʃ//smut͡ʃ/

smooch noun: a kiss, especially that which is on the cheek. Also the alternative form of smutch.

Noun

smooch (plural smooches)

  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
    Synonyms:
    munch

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To kiss.
    • They smooched in the doorway.
    • […] [Britney] Spears and NSYNCer Justin Timberlake smooching.2000, Adweek, page 5
  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

Also used as

smooch is also the alternative form of smutch.

Synonyms of smooch

Forms of smooch

Noun
pluralsmooches
alternative formsmouch
Verb
third-person singular presentsmooches
present participlesmooching
past participlesmooched
pastsmooched

Origin of 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”).

Words formed from smooch

Words that rhyme with smooch

Questions about smooch

What does smooch mean?
Smooch means a kiss, especially that which is on the cheek.
What part of speech is smooch?
Smooch can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce smooch?
Smooch is pronounced /smuːt͡ʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of smooch?
The plural of smooch is smooches.

Words near smooch in the dictionary

  1. Smondays
  2. smonk
  3. smonked
  4. smonking
  5. smonks
  6. smooch
  7. smooched
  8. smoocher
  9. smoochers
  10. smooches
  11. smoochfest

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