snogging
kissing and cuddling
TRANSLATION
snogging= knutschen (woerterbuch.info) --- GOOGLE INDEX snogging: approximately 1,000,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
A geography teacher was told today she would not be jailed after being found guilty of SNOGGING a 15-year-old male pupil on three occasions.
(The Guardian)
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Hollywood star Jude Law, 36, was seen and photographed SNOGGING with Rod Stewart's daughter, Kimberly Stewart, 29, in a London bar.
(The Los Angeles Times)
(The Guardian)
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Hollywood star Jude Law, 36, was seen and photographed SNOGGING with Rod Stewart's daughter, Kimberly Stewart, 29, in a London bar.
(The Los Angeles Times)
Did you
know?
snogging (chiefly British)
verb
- to kiss and caress amorously
(Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Most sources believe the word "snog" first appeared during the 20th century, but the origin is unknown. Snog is a British term for kissing and cuddling that is also used in other English speaking countries such as New Zealand and Australia. Although seldom heard in the United States, it's slowly becoming part of American teenage slang thanks to a popular book by British comedian Louise Rennison called "Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging."
The book is a fictional diary of a 14-year-old girl and is full of modern British teenage slang. To help young American readers, the book comes with a translation glossary that includes words such as:
fringe: a short bit of hair over the eyebrows. Americans call them "bangs."
naff: unbearably and embarrassingly out of fashion
Teletubby jimjams: pyjamas with kiddie TV characters on them
prat: a gormless oik. Gormless is slang for stupid and oik is a derogatory term for a student at another school.
wally: someone who acts like a prat, but in addition has no sense of fashion
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SYNONYMS
make-out, smooch, neck (outdated), pet, get off, pash (Australia), swap spit, play tonsil hockey
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"The concierge told the couple in reception to stop snogging."
verb
- to kiss and caress amorously
(Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Most sources believe the word "snog" first appeared during the 20th century, but the origin is unknown. Snog is a British term for kissing and cuddling that is also used in other English speaking countries such as New Zealand and Australia. Although seldom heard in the United States, it's slowly becoming part of American teenage slang thanks to a popular book by British comedian Louise Rennison called "Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging."
The book is a fictional diary of a 14-year-old girl and is full of modern British teenage slang. To help young American readers, the book comes with a translation glossary that includes words such as:
fringe: a short bit of hair over the eyebrows. Americans call them "bangs."
naff: unbearably and embarrassingly out of fashion
Teletubby jimjams: pyjamas with kiddie TV characters on them
prat: a gormless oik. Gormless is slang for stupid and oik is a derogatory term for a student at another school.
wally: someone who acts like a prat, but in addition has no sense of fashion
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SYNONYMS
make-out, smooch, neck (outdated), pet, get off, pash (Australia), swap spit, play tonsil hockey
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"The concierge told the couple in reception to stop snogging."
