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Cheat vs Smouch - What's the difference?

cheat | smouch |

As verbs the difference between cheat and smouch

is that cheat is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation while smouch is to stain or smudge, to smutch.

As nouns the difference between cheat and smouch

is that cheat is someone who cheats (informal: cheater) while smouch is a smutch; a stain or smudge.

cheat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
    • My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
  • To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
    • My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
  • To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
    • He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
    I feel as if I've cheated fate.
  • To deceive; to fool; to trick.
    • My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
    He cheated his way into office.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
  • To beguile.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • * Washington Irving
    • to cheat winter of its dreariness

    Synonyms

    * belirt * blench * break the rules * lirt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
  • An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
  • * Dryden
    • When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .
  • The weed cheatgrass.
  • A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
  • A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.

    • Synonyms

    * (card game ) bullshit, BS, I doubt it

    Derived terms

    * cheat code * cheater * cheating * cheat on * cheat the hangman * windcheater

    See also

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    Anagrams

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    smouch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A 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.
  • (US) A loud kiss, a smooch.

    • Verb

  • To stain or smudge, to smutch.
  • (US) To kiss loudly or closely.
  • To take dishonestly or unfairly, to steal from or cheat out of.
  • * 1884 , , Chapter XXXV,
    • 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."