smoodge
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Etymology
From British dialect. Australian from 1898.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
smoodge (third-person singular simple present smoodges, present participle smoodging, simple past and past participle smoodged)
- (Australia) To act in an ingratiating manner; to fawn.
- 1903 February 3, Political Labor League of New South Wales: Annual Conference, minutes, 2006, Michael Hogan (editor), Labor Pains: Early Conference and Executive Reports of the Labor Party of NSW, page 376,
- Mr Grant, in reply, was not in favor of the way the bureau was conducted. There was no rotation system, but a straight-out smoodging system, and therein was his objection. Give us the bureau, but let there be no smoodging to the foreman.
- The motion was lost.
- 1936, Brian Penton, Inheritors, 2003, facsimile, Sydney University Press, Print on Demand Service, page 289,
- “ […] We ain′t cowards to give up our swag to Cabell on the off-chance of smoodging charity from strangers.”
- 1995, Verity Burgmann, Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia, page 29:
- They denounced plutocrats and extolled bums, reviled lime-lighters and scorned the fakirs who smoodged for the support of the wage slaves.
- 1903 February 3, Political Labor League of New South Wales: Annual Conference, minutes, 2006, Michael Hogan (editor), Labor Pains: Early Conference and Executive Reports of the Labor Party of NSW, page 376,
- (Australia, slang, dated) To kiss and cuddle; to canoodle.
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