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Smouch vs Slouch - What's the difference?

smouch | slouch |

As nouns the difference between smouch and slouch

is that smouch is a smutch; a stain or smudge while slouch is a hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance.

As verbs the difference between smouch and slouch

is that smouch is to stain or smudge, to smutch while slouch is to hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture.

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."

    slouch

    English

    Noun

  • A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
    • He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch .
  • any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
    • The plant hung in a permanent slouch .
  • someone who is slow to act
  • * 2014 , Ian Jack, " Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
    • In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
  • (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

    • Derived terms

    * slouch hat

    Verb

  • To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
    • Do not slouch when playing a flute.
  • To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
    • I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.

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