snoggingn.

1945 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake (new ed.) 56 Snogging, courting, running around with the opposite sex. Comes from India. Thus, ‘On my leave I'm going up to the hills for a bit of snogging.’ Also used as a verb.

1951 Sunday Pictorial 28 Oct. 10/6 Few hounds can get in more than half an hour of ‘snogging’—their elegant term for not-too-serious courtship.

1960 N. Epton Love & English vi. 341 It is all right..to cuddle. (The current term among teen-agers is ‘snogging’.)

1966 P. Willmott Adolescent Boys E. London iii. 40 I went upstairs with Jill and we did a bit of snogging on the bed.

1975 Weekend 4 Feb. 19/1 If a cinema manager tolerates snogging among his audience he is liable to lose his licence.

1945 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake (new ed.) 56 Snogging, courting, running around with the opposite sex. Comes from India. Thus, ‘On my leave I'm going up to the hills for a bit of snogging.’ Also used as a verb.]

1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. xxxvi. 574 The cinema has lost its hold—except among unmarried teenagers, two-thirds of whom go at least once a week, perhaps to snog in the doubles.

1959 W. Camp Ruling Passion xii. 82 Let's pretend we're teenagers and stop for a nice snog.

1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 21 They were enjoying a kiss—well, more of a snog really.

1965 J. Gaskell Fabulous Heroine 94 A most experienced snogger.

1981 R. Barnard Mother's Boys ii. 20 They had..taken the side way through the little cutting known popularly as ‘Snoggers Alley’.

1958 ‘J. Brogan’ Cummings Rep. xv. 156 He is a..girl-snogging..bounder.