Now dial. Also 8 dial. smeawtch, 9 smoutch. [Cf. G. schmutz (MHG. smuz) in the same sense.] A kiss, a buss.
1578. Whetstone, Promos & Cass., I. IV. vii. Come smack me, I long for a smouch.
1634. Heywood & Brome, Lanc. Witches, II. H.’s Wks. 1874, IV. 194. I’le have one smouch at thy lips.
c. 1746. J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), View Lanc. Dial. (1775), 66. Let meh ha one smeawtch at parting.
a. 1800. Pegge, Suppl. Grose, Smouch, a kiss. North.
a. 1825–. in dial. glossaries (Yorks., Lanc., Chesh., Linc., Northampt., E. Anglia, etc.).
