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

Ar 19:28 15/11/01 -0500, bhac Roger Mills le scríobh chugam:
>Many have written:
>(more from my reading in the archive)
> >> > I think the word is "snogging", but since my Am. English is better then
>my
> >> > British, you should really check with a native.
> >>
> >> UK snogging = US petting, AFAIK.
> >
> >I (UK) think of snogging as mainly done with the mouth & petting
> >as mainly done with the hands.
>
>
>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.
I can't say it sounds familiar to me. It's probably some now archaic piece
of Dublin Hiberno-english.

K.

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