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smouch

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I can almost tell, in set phrase, what they will say when they see Tabor, Nazareth, Jericho and Jerusalem--because I have the books they will "smouch" their ideas from.

—The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05

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Same as smutch.
To kiss; buss. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] What kissing and bussing, what smouching & slabbering one of another! Stubbes, Anat. of Abuses, i. 16. I had rather than a bend of leather Shee and I might smouch together. Heywood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, I. 40).
A loud kiss; a smack; a buss. Come smack me; I long for a smouch. Promos and Cassandra, p. 47. (Halliwell.)

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I can almost tell, in set phrase, what they will say when they see Tabor, Nazareth, Jericho and Jerusalem--because I have the books they will "smouch" their ideas from. — The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05
"'T is a new bond-servant o 'Squire Meredith's, who I hearn is no smouch on horses. — Janice Meredith
Then the king 'll get it again, and it' ll be a long day before he gives anybody another chance to smouch it from him. — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
So I'll mosey along now, and smouch a couple of case-knives. " — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Run along and smouch the knives -- three of them. " — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn