smouch

plural smouches

1. USalternativeAlternative form of smooch (“kiss”).

present singular third person smouches · participle present smouching · participle past smouched · past smouched

1. USalternativeAlternative form of smooch (“kiss”).

   For what kissing and bussing, what Smouching and slabbering one of another, what filthie groping and uncleane handling is not practiced in those dancings

   1583, Phillip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses

plural smouches

1. alternativeAlternative form of smutch (“a stain or smudge”).

   […]and on her breast a baby, wet as she, smiling and cooing, but with a great crimson smouch on its tiny shoulder.

   1896, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, Harper's new monthly magazine, volume 93, page 618

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   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!

   1866, Henry Ward Beecher, 595 Pulpit Pungencies, page 263

present singular third person smouches · participle present smouching · participle past smouched · past smouched

1. alternativeAlternative form of smutch (“to stain or smudge”).

present singular third person smouches · participle present smouching · participle past smouched · past smouched

1. To take dishonestly or unfairly, to steal from or cheat out of.

   […]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."

   1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 366

plural smouches

1. alternativeAlternative form of smous.