smoodge

Verb

smoodge (third-person singular simple present smoodges, present participle smoodging, simple past and past participle smoodged)

1. (Australia) To act in an ingratiating manner; to fawn.
   • Mr Grant, in reply, was not in favor of the way the bureau was conducted. There was no rotation system, but a straight-out smoodging system, and therein was his objection. Give us the bureau, but let there be no smoodging to the foreman.
     The motion was lost.1903 February 3, Political Labor League of New South Wales: Annual Conference, minutes, 2006, Michael Hogan (editor), Labor Pains: Early Conference and Executive Reports of the Labor Party of NSW...
   • “ […] We ain′t cowards to give up our swag to Cabell on the off-chance of smoodging charity from strangers.”1936, Brian Penton, Inheritors, 2003, facsimile, Sydney University Press, Print on Demand Service, page 289
2. (Australia, transitive) To inveigle; to use flattery and wiles on someone.
   • "If I'd knowed she was going to do it I'd never have signed that there partnership she smoodged me into signing, making out it was only to stop me brother Herbert William from comin' in by law for my property, and all the time she was working it out so she could come in for it herself if I pegged...1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 163
3. (Australia, dated, slang) To kiss and cuddle; to canoodle.