verb. (American).—1. To kiss.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. MOW. To kiss. ‘The bloke was mowing the molly,’ the man was kissing the girl.
d. 1555. LYNDSAY, Kitteis Confessioun [LAING, i. 136, 16]. Quod scho, Will Leno MOWIT me.
1597–8. HAUGHTON, A Woman will have her Will, ii. 1 [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, x. 493]. I am no meat for his MOWING.
1719. D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, v. 18.
| For when at her Daddy’s Ise gang to Bed, | |
| Ise MOW’D her without any more to do? |
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. TO MOW. A Scotch word for the act of copulation.
1793. BURNS, (In Title) Poor Bodies do Nothing but MOW.
| May the deil in her arse Ram a huge prick of brass! | |
| An’ damn her to hell wi’ a MOW! |
1808. JAMIESON, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, s.v. MOW … to copulate.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1850. HALLIWELL, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc., s.v. MOW … Futuo.
