Smouched vs Slouched - What's the difference?
smouched | slouched |
(smouch)
A smutch; a stain or smudge.
* 1866 , Henry Ward Beecher, 595 Pulpit Pungencies ,
* 1896 , Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, Harper's new monthly magazine , Volume 93,
(US) A loud kiss, a smooch.
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,
(slouch)
A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
someone who is slow to act
* 2014 , Ian Jack, "
(dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
As verbs the difference between smouched and slouched
is that smouched is past tense of smouch while slouched is past tense of slouch.smouched
English
Verb
(head)smouch
English
Noun
(es)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!
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
- 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."
slouched
English
Verb
(head)slouch
English
Noun
- He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch .
- The plant hung in a permanent slouch .
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.
Derived terms
* slouch hatVerb
- Do not slouch when playing a flute.
- I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.