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smouch

/smuːt͡ʃ/

smouch is the alternative form of smooch.

smouch is the alternative form of smutch.

smouch is the alternative form of smous.

Meaning of smooch

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

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Meaning of smutch

Noun

smutch (plural smutches)

  1. A stain, smudge or blot.
    • As let a man sticke a Candle to a stone wall, though the Candle do not burne through it, yet it will leaue a shrewd smutch behind it, soyling the wall, so as it will not easily be wyped out. Thus it is with tentations, though they doe not all the mischiefe they would and might doe, they will yet be...1629, John Smith, “An Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer”, in Essex doue, presenting the world with a few of her oliue branches, London: George Edwardes, page 124

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Verb

smouch (third-person singular simple present smouches, present participle smouching, simple past and past participle smouched)

  1. To take dishonestly or unfairly, to steal from or cheat out of.
    • […]So I'll mosey along now, and smouch a couple of case-knives."
    • "Smouch three," he says; "we want one to make a saw out of."1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 366

Forms of smouch

Noun
pluralsmouches
Verb
third-person singular presentsmouches
present participlesmouching
past participlesmouched
pastsmouched

Origin of smouch

Variant of smooch.

Probably a variant of smutch.

Perhaps compare mooch.

Questions about smouch

What does smouch mean?
Smouch means to take dishonestly or unfairly, to steal from or cheat out of.
What is smouch the alternative form of?
Smouch is the alternative form of smooch.
What part of speech is smouch?
Smouch is a verb.
How do you pronounce smouch?
Smouch is pronounced /smuːt͡ʃ/.
What is the past tense of smouch?
The past tense of smouch is smouched.

Words near smouch in the dictionary

  1. smothers
  2. smothersome
  3. smotherweed
  4. smothery
  5. Smotrich
  6. smouch
  7. smouched
  8. smouches
  9. smouching
  10. Smouha
  11. Smouhas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smouch (page history and authors); smooch (page history and authors); smutch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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