Smooching

Definition: Smooching

Smooching

Noun

1. Affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs).

Synonyms: Smooching

Synonyms: caressing (n), cuddling (n), fondling (n), hugging (n), kissing (n), necking (n), petting (n), snuggling (n). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	They were smooching in the dark (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Long smooching kiss.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Smooching" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Smooching" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	83.33%	5	157,705
Adjective (general or positive)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "smooching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		schmusend. (various references)

Pig Latin		oochingsmay

Russian		чмокать чмокание. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Smooching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: slooching. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-m-n-o-o-s"
	-1 letter: choosing, mooching.
	-2 letters: comings, coshing, gnomish, moonish, moshing, shooing.
	-3 letters: chinos, cogons, cohogs, coigns, coming, congos, cooing, cosign, gnomic, homing, hosing, incogs, isogon, mongos, monish, mooing, oohing, simoon, smooch.
	-4 letters: chino, chins, cions, cogon, cohog, cohos, coign, coins, congo, coons, gismo, goons, homos, hongs, icons, incog, mongo, monos, mooch, moons, nighs, nomoi, nomos, ohing.
	Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-m-n-o-o-s"
	+1 letter: schmoosing, schmoozing.
	+2 letters: homecomings, shortcoming.
	+3 letters: physiognomic, shortcomings.
	+4 letters: homeschooling.
	+5 letters: cholangiograms, homeschoolings, photocomposing, physiognomical.
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