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snogging, vbl. n. slang.|ˈsnɒgɪŋ|
[Origin unknown: cf. snug v.]
Engagement in light, amorous play, esp. kissing and cuddling.
1945C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake (ed. 2) 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. 1951Sunday 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. 1960N. Epton Love & English vi. 341 It is all right..to cuddle. (The current term among teen-agers is ‘snogging’.) 1966P. Willmott Adolescent Boys iii. 40, I went upstairs with Jill and we did a bit of snogging on the bed. 1975Weekend 4 Feb. 19/1 If a cinema manager tolerates snogging among his audience he is liable to lose his licence.
Also snog v.2 intr., to engage in snogging; snog n., an instance of this; ˈsnogger, ˈsnogging ppl. a.
1945[see snogging vbl. n.]. 1958‘J. Brogan’ Cummings Report xv. 156 He is a..girl-snogging..bounder. 1959W. Camp Ruling Passion xii. 82 Let's pretend we're teenagers and stop for a nice snog. 1962A. Sampson Anat. Britain 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. 1965J. Gaskell Fabulous Heroine 94 A most experienced snogger. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 21 They were enjoying a kiss—well, more of a snog really. 1981R. Barnard Mother's Boys ii. 20 They had..taken the side way through the little cutting known popularly as ‘Snoggers Alley’. |