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单词 smoodge
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Brit. /ˈsmuːdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsmʊdʒ/, /ˈsmudʒ/, Australian English /ˈsmuːdʒ/, New Zealand English /ˈsmuːdʒ/
Etymology: Probably variant smudge v.5: see Smudge v.1 in Eng. Dial. Dict.
Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
intransitive. To act in an ingratiating or fawning manner; to display affection, to behave amorously.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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