Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. UK, slang To kiss passionately.
- n. A passionate kiss.
WordNet 3.0
- v. touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
Etymologies
- Possibly from the same roots as snug (meaning to lie close) which one has to do for a proper snog. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Neither do I 'snog' as that is something that is done by 14 year olds.”
“I left the two to "snog" (thank you Meaghan and Jeniece) and went on home.”
“They included a "snog" in Glasgow City Chambers soon after they met and having sex beneath a Che Guevara picture in Sheridan's bedroom.”
“Kate did indulge in the rare “snog,” random or not, during her time at Marlborough.”
“Would Sarah so readily have stuck her nose in the bathroom, where she might have been more likely to find Dave having a pee than crying out for a consoling snog?”
“They want to snog someone they have just met for hours, sitting on benches or, even better, other people's garden walls, occasionally coming up for air and eating chips.”
“Up until my mid-twenties, female friends of mine were in exactly the same position as you, with a one-off snog being the closest they'd come to a relationship.”
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
“Though he looked a little edgy, shifting uneasily from foot to foot when Sky made him do the standing-up-playing-video-games thing, he seemed sensible, knowledgeable, and delivered his wisdom without frills, and at a time when others are opting for amiable novelty acts like Robbie Savage, that is as cheering – this one's for you, Ken – as a long snog in a shop doorway on a winter's night.”
The Guardian: Ken Bates and the art of slow seduction cannot help but leave me cold| Martin Kelner
“Can you imagine a fic where Jack teaches 10 how to snog properly?”
Stay on target...stay on target...Spoilers for Doctor Who Special #1
“You got a double-barrelled snog from Rihanna and Katy Perry at the 2010 MTV Music Awards.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snog’.
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Hugonyms
Anything hugging related :)
squeeze, embrace, cuddle, nestle, cling, snuggle, arms, exchange, bear hug, thoughtful, affectionate, waist and 16 more...
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Your Mother
Joyess
cramp, crumble, cringe, slope, fling, prone, freckle, plank, frock, tramp, slump, crotch rot and 36 more...
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funny sex words
funny sex words.
romp, snog, doggie, cartalingus, straddle, bang, root, lube, filashio, dutch rudder, spoon
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My woRdz...
layover, deet, etiquette, fondling, snog, dead letter office, lenient, severe, banter, grapple, sentiment, slacks and 1 more...
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The Kissing List
kiss, osculate, peck, butterfly, french, cataglottis, soul kiss, deep kiss, air kiss, Yankee dime, smooch, smack and 57 more...
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
Really Cool Four-Letter Words
I marvel at the amazing variety of four-letter words in the English language. And that's not even counting really common (to me) words like fuck.
ibis, pelf, sofa, iota, oboe, lava, icon, sped, puha, pulp, puma, kyat and 150 more...
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Review
Words to study and become more familiar with.
phatic, tontine, backronym, polyptoton, fissiparous, deus ex machina, orrery, prolly, mad props, snog, oubliette, copyleft and 101 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for snog.
johnmperry canoodle Jul 25, 2008