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Scooch vs Smooch - What's the difference?

scooch | smooch |

As verbs the difference between scooch and smooch

is that scooch is (us) to shift, move aside, or scoot over while smooch is (informal) to kiss or smooch can be .

As a noun smooch is

(informal) a kiss.

scooch

English

Alternative forms

* scootch * skooch * skootch

Verb

  • (US) To shift, move aside, or scoot over.
  • * 1992 , Kevin Henkes, Words of Stone
    • "We could watch it all night," Joselle would add, scooching closer to her mother. "If it was on all night."
  • * 1998 , George Ostrom, Shannon Ostrom, Nature
    • Lying on your side, start rocking back and forth, scooching to and fro and kicking.
  • * 2002 , Andrew Clements, A Week in the Woods
    • Turning over onto his back, he scooched down farther into his bag. It was the kind of sleeping bag with a hood built into it, so he pulled on the drawstring...
  • To crouch.
  • *, chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ […].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.}}

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    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!