smouch
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Variant of smooch.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
smouch (plural smouches)
Verb[edit]
smouch (third-person singular simple present smouches, present participle smouching, simple past and past participle smouched)
- (US) Alternative form of smooch (“kiss”)
- 1583, Phillip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses:
- For what kissing and bussing, what Smouching and slabbering one of another, what filthie groping and uncleane handling is not practiced in those dancings
Etymology 2[edit]
Probably a variant of smutch.
Noun[edit]
smouch (plural smouches)
- Alternative form of smutch (“a stain or smudge”)
- 1866, Henry Ward Beecher, 595 Pulpit Pungencies, page 263:
- Suppose an artist, after having completed such a picture, in a moment of intoxication, goes into his studio, takes his brush, dips it into black paint, and applies it thereto. Only one smouch and the work of months is destroyed!
- 1896, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, Harper's new monthly magazine, volume 93, page 618:
- […] and on her breast a baby, wet as she, smiling and cooing, but with a great crimson smouch on its tiny shoulder.
Verb[edit]
smouch (third-person singular simple present smouches, present participle smouching, simple past and past participle smouched)
Etymology 3[edit]
Perhaps compare mooch.
Verb[edit]
smouch (third-person singular simple present smouches, present participle smouching, simple past and past participle smouched)
- To take dishonestly or unfairly, to steal from or cheat 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:
- […] 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."
Etymology 4[edit]
Noun[edit]
smouch (plural smouches)
- Alternative form of smous