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smoodge, smooge, v. Austral. and N.Z. colloq.|smuːdʒ|
[Prob. var. smudge v.5: see Smudge v.1 in Eng. Dial. Dict.]
intr. To act in an ingratiating or fawning manner; to display affection, to behave amorously.
1906E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands v. 54 He would smooge to me when the boss wasn't about, 'n' he said we could run a grand little show on our lonesome. 1916C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke 39 An' there they smooge a treat, wiv pretty words Like two love-birds. 1936M. Franklin All that Swagger xlii. 395 They smoodge around Roger, but they order me about like a rouseabout. 1957P. White Voss v. 110 That is just what ladies do not take to, some big stray tom smoodgin' round their skirts. Ladies like to fall in love. 1969Landfall XXIII. 27 We'd better go in now or he'll thing we're smooging with each other out here. 1973P. White Eye of Storm x. 480 She came smoodging up at her father, and he..kissed her.
So ˈsmoodger, a flatterer, a sycophant; ˈsmoodging ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1898Bulletin (Sydney) 30 July 32/3 Another undesirable specimen is the ‘crawler’. Always carrying yarns to the boss about the other men... He is first cousin to the ‘smooger’, who is only superficially a white man. 1899Ibid. 7 Jan. 15/1 Lawson..feels for the wretch who is out battling, and is kept out by servile, ‘smoodging’ station lifers. 1916T. Skeyhill Soldier Songs from Anzac 59 E's a sneakin', smoogin' blighter, An' 'e'll never make a fighter. 1940F. D. Davison Woman at Mill 218 He was a mean customer,..a petty bureaucrat, and a smooger, to boot. 1953D. M. Davin in Landfall VII. 20 He would be putting his arms around her. ‘Smooging won't get you out of it,’ she said. 1958R. Stow To Islands i. 19 ‘Sister,’ she sighed lovingly, hiding her face against Helen's neck. ‘You old smoodger,’ Helen said. 1963B. Pearson Coal Flat xvii. 304 You do your smooging somewhere else. |