What's the difference between kiss and smooch?

Kiss


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.
  • (v. t.) To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly.
  • (v. i.) To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love, respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends.
  • (v. i.) To meet; to come in contact; to touch fondly.
  • (v.) A salutation with the lips, as a token of affection, respect, etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation.
  • (v.) A small piece of confectionery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The station programmer of the year went to Andy Roberts of dance station Kiss.
  • (2) You’ve got just as much right to be here as anyone else.” I could have kissed her.
  • (3) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
  • (4) Googlers in 2014 were also asking for tips on learning new skills, with the most popular being “how to draw”, followed by “how to kiss” and “how to crochet”.
  • (5) On stage at La Bastille after his election victory, footage showed that after Hollande gave Royal a kiss on the cheek, Trierweiler demanded of him: "Kiss me on the mouth."
  • (6) "Technically there's no reason why, just because I'm cut down there, I couldn't feel sexy when a guy is kissing me or touching my breasts.
  • (7) Thierry Henry with Youri Djorkaeff, kissing the World Cup after France’s triumph in Paris in 1998.
  • (8) Kiss, K. J. Sparks, W. S. Argraves, G. Hampikian, and P. F. Goetinck.
  • (9) I don’t really care how a candidate shakes hands and kisses babies.” An hour later, Bill and Hillary were on stage.
  • (10) Perhaps aware of her Marmite appeal, today Gaga is immediately on the charm offensive, giving me a kiss on arrival and complementing me on my shoes (at one point she bends down to stroke the material).
  • (11) Eady's initial ruling said there "can be no automatic priority accorded to freedom of speech" and that "as in so many 'kiss and tell' cases" there was no obvious justification in naming the player on public interest grounds.
  • (12) Bauer is proposing to run stations on the Sound Digital platform, including Heat Radio, Absolute 80s and Planet Rock, all of which are already well established on digital platforms, and Kiss spin-off, Kisstory.
  • (13) It feels like it was only yesterday that I was kicking Blue Jasmine down the stairs like Tommy Udo in Kiss Of Death.
  • (14) Because embedded in this otherwise innocuous kiss-and-tell is a devastating revelation about Hollande: "He presented himself," writes Trierweiler, "as the man who doesn't like the rich.
  • (15) At first, the sheer deluge of random faces, selfies, girls kissing other girls (is that a thing nowadays?)
  • (16) In the first year certain forms of "early beginnings of the kiss" can be recognized.
  • (17) I thought at the time he was a relative and then he started kissing her and running his hands up and down her arms and then started to molest here and there wasn't a think I could do about it because I was laid on my back," she told BBC News.
  • (18) But had she been allowed in unmolested there would have been a risk of some lesbian kissing going on.
  • (19) With Diego I wanted him to do a certain movement that he didn’t and I was disappointed and reacted and he reacted too, but at half-time in the dressing room there were a few kisses and cuddles,” Mourinho said after the game.
  • (20) That my first kiss could be in somebody else’s clothes.

Smooch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) See Smutch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Carrasco, a half-time substitute, menaced Real’s defenders and scored the goal that took the game to extra time, celebrating it by running to the front row and – a first for the European Cup – smooching with his girlfriend.
  • (2) So Natsal carefully distinguishes a “same-sex experience”, which could be just a smooch in the dark, from a “same-sex partner”, who is someone with whom you have had any genital contact intended to achieve orgasm.
  • (3) The way Cranston tells it – in a long, circuitous anecdote, punctuated by hand gestures and bouncing eyebrows – he arrived in the class to be handed a sheet of paper describing an acting exercise, that required him to smooch passionately with his (beautiful, female) acting partner for that day.
  • (4) It’s like they say: snitches gets smooches.” Warner, barely a week after he mistook an article in The Onion, the American satirical website, for a straight news report , again seemed to drag his response wide of the mark.
  • (5) Yeah, he wrote the Violence Against Women Act , but there are also all those clips of Biden awkwardly smooching women at official receptions.

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