Smooched vs Smouched - What's the difference?
smooched | smouched |
(smooch)
(informal) A kiss.
(informal) To kiss.
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
(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,
As verbs the difference between smooched and smouched
is that smooched is past tense of smooch while smouched is past tense of smouch.smooched
English
Verb
(head)smooch
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from a dialectal variation of smack. Compare also (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(es)Derived terms
* smoochies * smoochiness * smoochyVerb
(es)- They smooched in the doorway.
Derived terms
* smoocherEtymology 2
Verb
(es)- 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!
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."