单词 | smoodge |
释义 | smoodgesmoogev. Australian and New Zealand colloquial. intransitive. To act in an ingratiating or fawning manner; to display affection, to behave amorously. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > affection > [verb (intransitive)] fondle1720 smoodge1906 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)] fain?c1225 fawnc1325 to make placebo1340 fagea1382 curryc1400 to curry favela1420 to claw (a person's) toea1500 to curry favour?1518 to be at the school of placebo1554 to play (with) placebo1583 insinuatea1593 wriggle1601 lick1602 sycophantize1605 gnathonize1619 pickthank1621 supparasitate1623 ingratiate1647 slaver1730 toad-eat1766 slaum1787 to eat (any one's) toads1788 toad1802 bootlick1846 toady1861 to suck in1899 smoodge1906 smarm1911 arse-lick1928 bum-suck1930 to suck round1931 ass-lick1937 brown-nose1939 suck-hole1961 weasel1980 1906 E. 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. 1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 39 An' there they smooge a treat, wiv pretty words Like two love-birds. 1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xlii. 395 They smoodge around Roger, but they order me about like a rouseabout. 1957 P. 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. 1969 Landfall 23 27 We'd better go in now or he'll thing we're smooging with each other out here. 1973 P. White Eye of Storm x. 480 She came smoodging up at her father, and he..kissed her. Derivatives ˈsmoodger n. a flatterer, a sycophant. ΚΠ 1898 Bulletin (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. 1940 F. D. Davison Woman at Mill 218 He was a mean customer,..a petty bureaucrat, and a smooger, to boot. 1958 R. Stow To Islands i. 19 ‘Sister,’ she sighed lovingly, hiding her face against Helen's neck. ‘You old smoodger,’ Helen said. ˈsmoodging adj. and n. ΚΠ 1899 Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Jan. 15/1 Lawson..feels for the wretch who is out battling, and is kept out by servile, ‘smoodging’ station lifers. 1916 T. Skeyhill Soldier Songs from Anzac 59 E's a sneakin', smoogin' blighter, An' 'e'll never make a fighter. 1953 D. M. Davin in Landfall VII. 20 He would be putting his arms around her. ‘Smooging won't get you out of it,’ she said. 1963 B. Pearson Coal Flat xvii. 304 You do your smooging somewhere else. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < v.1898 |
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