Re: Kiss (was: Many Words for One Concept (was: Interesting Words))

>A question for our British or Irish friends:  what exactly is/was
>"smugging"?  It occurs in the early pages of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist
>(school days)--  two boys were caught smugging in the public square--
>Sounds a little risqué, but probably isn't.
OED says to "smug" means to steal something, to crib notes, to hush something
up, or to put someone in prison.

There's _another_ verb "smug" that has as one definition to caress or fondle
(and for relevance, illustrated by a Joyce quote from Ulysses:  "Blind to the
world up in a shebeen in Bride street after closing time...and hugging and
smugging.")

    *Muke!