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Mooch vs Smooch - What's the difference?

mooch | smooch |

As verbs the difference between mooch and smooch

is that mooch is to wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others while smooch is to kiss.

As nouns the difference between mooch and smooch

is that mooch is one who mooches; a moocher while smooch is a kiss.

mooch

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(es)
  • (British) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
  • To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
  • * 1990 , p. 26, Michael L. Frankel & friends, Gently with the Tides , Center for Marine Conservation, Washington (DC), ISBN 1879269-007, p. 26,
    • I managed to mooch my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of “Interviewer”.
  • (British) To steal or filch.
  • * 1922 , , The Middle of Things , ch. 16,
    • These chaps that mooch about, as Hyde was doing, pick up all sorts of odds and ends. He may have pinched them from a chemist’s shop.

    Derived terms

    * mooch off

    Noun

    (es)
  • One who mooches; a moocher.

    • smooch

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps from a dialectal variation of smack. Compare also (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (informal) A kiss.
    • Derived terms
    * smoochies * smoochiness * smoochy

    Verb

    (es)
  • (informal) To kiss.
    • They smooched in the doorway.
    Derived terms
    * smoocher

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (es)
  • * Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
    • Then she said that the paper stained everything it touched, that she had found yellow smooches on all my clothes and John's, and she wished we would be more careful!