Also 6 smowtch, 6–7 smoutch. [Cf. G. dial. schmutzen to kiss, to smile.] intr. and trans. To kiss, buss.
(a) 1588. E. D., trans. Theocritus Six Idillia, A vij. Thinkst thou … mee to kisse? I haue no will After the Countrie guise to smouch.
1600. Heywood, 1st Pt. Edw. IV., III. i. I had rather than a bend of leather She and I might smouch together.
(b) 1595. Enq. Tripe-wife (1881), 165. Kisse and smowtch the Widdow neuer so much: there is one … must carrie the wench away.
1622. Drayton, Poly-olb., xxi. 71. Chill zmouch thee every morn, before the Sun can rise.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. 235. The Knights … did so smouch them, that the lippe-frolicks were heard into the Kitchin.
1811. Lady Granville, Lett. (1894), I. 21. The little hideous Duc de Berri smouches us all.
a. 1825–. in dial. glossaries (E. Anglia, Lanc., Cheshire, etc.).
Hence Smoucher; Smouching vbl. sb.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abuses, M viij b. What kissing and bussing, what smouching & slabbering one of another.
1611. Cotgr., Baiseur, a kisser, smoutcher, smacker.
