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smouching

smouching is the present participle and gerund of smouch.

Meaning of smouch

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

Questions about smouching

What is smouching the present participle and gerund of?
Smouching is the present participle and gerund of smouch.

Words near smouching in the dictionary

  1. smothery
  2. Smotrich
  3. smouch
  4. smouched
  5. smouches
  6. smouching
  7. Smouha
  8. Smouhas
  9. smoulder
  10. smouldered
  11. smoulderer

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