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Definition: Snog |
SnogVerb1. Cuddling and kissing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snog" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
Synonyms: SnogSynonyms: smooch (v), spoon (v). (additional references) |
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Most notable about Snog, however, is the strong political messages brought forth in the music. Thrussell commonly puts themes of anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, veganism, individuality, and anti-big-brotherism.
Many of his albums feature common corporations in an unfavorable light. For example, Third Mall from the Sun features McDonalds employees saluting the Golden Arches (the logo of McDonalds), as if the employees owed their life to the corporation. Indeed, Snog lyrics are full of such allusions. Here's one example from the song The Ballad:
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Crosswords: Snog |
| Non-English Usage: "Snog" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (nod, toss, toss of head). |
| "Snog" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.97% of the time. "Snog" is used about 29 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 68.97% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 31.03% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
snog | 49 |
lyrics snog | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snog"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | knutschen (make out, neck, necking, pet, petting, smooch, to smooch, to snog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | smacizás, smárolás (necking), nyalakodás (lap), etyepetye, csókolódzás, ölelkezés (cuddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sbaciucchiarsi (kiss and cuddle, neck, smooch), pomiciata. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogsnay целоваться и обниматься. (various references) hångla (make out, neck). (various references) กอ"จูบ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references) sarmaş dolaş öpüşmek, öpüşüp koklaşmak (smooch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snog": snogged, snogging, snogs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nogs, song. | |
| Words within the letters "g-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: gos, nog, nos, ons, son. | |
-2 letters: go, no, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: agons, bongs, dongs, gongs, goons, gowns, hongs, longs, noggs, pongs, segno, snogs, songs, tongs. | |
+2 letters: agones, argons, bingos, bogans, bongos, cogons, coigns, congas, conges, congos, cosign, doings, dongas, dosing, flongs, ganofs, gascon, genoas, genoms, genros, gibson, gipons, girons, gluons, gnomes, gnoses, gnosis, gobans, godson, goings, gonads, gonefs, goners, gonifs, gonofs, gossan, gowans, grison, groans, groins, guanos, gyrons, hogans, hosing, incogs, ingots, isogon, klongs, logans, longes, losing, mangos, mongos, mongst, mungos, nosing, orangs, organs, pengos, pingos, posing, prongs, rosing, sarong, segnos, shogun, signor, slogan, soigne, soling, soring, sowing, sponge, spongy, stingo, strong, sundog, tangos, thongs, tigons, tongas, wagons, wrongs, yogins, youngs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 6F 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. --- --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01101111 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n o g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 006F 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53808173 |
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