smooch

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from a dialectal variation of smack. Compare also Low German smok (“a kiss, a smouch/smooch”), Alemannic German Schmutz, Schmützle (“a kiss, a smooch”).

Alternative forms

• smouch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smuːt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -uːtʃ

Noun

smooch (plural smooches)

1. (informal) A kiss, especially that which is on the cheek.
   • 2023 November 16 [2019 February 5], “Mimi Gilmour Buckley on building a burger empire”, in Newmarket‎^[1]:

     Ideally with exercise at 6am and then schmooches with my daughter Olympia. If I’m lucky I squeeze in a breakfast at Orphans Kitchen with some of my favourite people, and then off to work I go!

2. (New York, slang, derogatory) Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.

   Synonym: munch

   • 2021 March 18, “Brotherly Love” (track 3, 0:56 from the start), in Dougie B (lyrics), The D.O.A. Tape‎^[2]:

     And tell Nay-Nay come shake up the room
     Lil Gotti call thotty, that bitch is a smooch (That bitch is a smoochie)

Derived terms

• smoochies
• smoochiness
• smoochy

Translations

(informal) a kiss

• Bulgarian: целу́вка (bg) f (celúvka)
• Catalan: petó (ca)
• Czech: pusa (cs) f, polibek (cs)
• Dutch: bekken (nl)
• Finnish: (informal) pusu (fi), suudelma (fi)
• Galician: chucho
• German: Schmatzer (de) m, Küsschen (de) n, Bussi (de) (chiefly Bavaria and Austria), Busserl (de) n (Bavaria and Austria)
• Hungarian: puszi (hu)
• Italian: bacio (it) m
• Romanian: sărut (ro) n, pupat (ro) n (informal), pup (ro) m (informal), țoc (ro) n (informal)
• Russian: чмок (ru) m (čmok)
• Spanish: beso (es)
• Swedish: puss (sv) c

Verb

smooch (third-person singular simple present smooches, present participle smooching, simple past and past participle smooched)

1. (informal, transitive, intransitive) To kiss.

   They smooched in the doorway.

   • 2000, Adweek, page 5:

     […] [Britney] Spears and NSYNCer Justin Timberlake smooching.

   • 2013 May 6, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, May 6, 2013:

     "Hm. I guess I did agree to go along with whatever her conditions were..." "We smooched on it. No backsies."

Derived terms

• besmooch
• smoocher

Translations

(informal) to kiss

• Bulgarian: целу́вам (bg) impf (celúvam)
• Czech: muckat se (cs) impf
• Finnish: (informal) pussata (fi), suudella (fi)
• French: bécoter (fr)
• Galician: chuchar (gl)
• German: knutschen (de)
• Hungarian: puszil (hu)
• Italian: pomiciare (it), baciare (it), limonare (it), slinguare (it), fare l'amore (it)
• Kashubian: blancać impf
• Romanian: săruta (ro), pupa (ro) (informal), țocăi (ro) (informal)
• Russian: чмо́каться (ru) impf (čmókatʹsja), чмо́кнуться (ru) pf (čmóknutʹsja)
• Spanish: besar (es)
• Swedish: hångla (sv)

Etymology 2

Noun

smooch (plural smooches)

1. Alternative form of smutch
   • 1892, 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!

Verb

smooch (third-person singular simple present smooches, present participle smooching, simple past and past participle smooched)

1. Alternative form of smutch

Anagrams

• schmoo, chooms, chomos