What's the difference between shag and snog?

Shag


Definition:

  • (n.) Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
  • (n.) A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
  • (n.) A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.
  • (n.) Any species of cormorant.
  • (a.) Hairy; shaggy.
  • (v. t.) To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Because people didn't see me falling out of clubs or shagging in the alleys with different girls every week, they thought something was wrong with me.
  • (2) This is a guy whose last feature, Trash Humpers , was 80 minutes of old people shagging foliage.
  • (3) Voteman aims to get young people voting by slapping them around the chops, decapitating them, or simply hurling them into the voting booth like the shagging, lazy slackers they are.
  • (4) It's the difference between a quick shag and an all-night lovemaking session!"
  • (5) The movie was shot last year during a real spring break in St Petersburg, Florida, amid the kind of week-long teen chaos – motels on fire, pools filled with furniture, kids shagging in the street – that it takes a resort town a year to recover from.
  • (6) During Friday's hearing, White referred to an email she sent to a newspaper providing a tip about Nick Clegg's sex life, known as the "18 shags story" and said "it suggests something about her attitude".
  • (7) The relatively low activity of these enzymes is probably the main reason why the shag has been found to contain relatively high levels of dieldrin in ecological studies.
  • (8) "A shag", Ferdinand explained when asked what the gesture meant.
  • (9) I didn't look like I was supposed to because I'd been Barbarella and now I had this short, brown shag that became famous in Klute.
  • (10) You shagged your team-mate's missus, you're a cunt."
  • (11) A sports commentator was cut loose from his radio station this week for sending a tweet that read: "To all fellow women journalists: shag wisely, you could become the next first lady of France."
  • (12) We shouldn’t beat ourselves up about one-night stands or walks of shame.” The idea of your 20s as a carefree period before a woman starts her “real” life of monogamy and child-bearing is not a new one: see the end of John Cleland’s Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure , published in 1748, where 300 pages of masturbation, orgies and lesbianism are followed by a “tail-piece of morality”, and protagonist Fanny Hill explains that she is much happier now she’s put all that filthy shagging behind her.
  • (13) Scattering out around the goals and small pitches informal games are played in mixed groups as pretty much every kid here takes a turn to demonstrate their range of tricks, traps and flicks on that wondrous green shag.
  • (14) She also caused some offence in 2005 when she suggested on air, in the wake of revelations about John Prescott's extra-marital activities, that his nickname should be changed from "two jags" to "two shags".
  • (15) Women comedians are probably not looking for shags in any case; if they were, they probably couldn't say so.
  • (16) Avon: "If your mate just gives us the bird he was shagging - was she a bird in Buckingham Palace?"
  • (17) "You shagged your team-mate's missus, you're the cunt."
  • (18) However, "continuing dramas" can't all be about shagging and hotpot (brilliant though that sounds).
  • (19) Hatchet was subjected to virulent internet abuse, some fans at United games sang songs naming and abusing his victim and declaring that Evans would “shag who he wants”.
  • (20) Liver microsomes of the shag showed smaller than 8% of the epoxide hydrase activity and smaller than 14% of the hydroxylating capacity of liver microsomes from the rat.

Snog


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
  • (2) In the media, Stem graduates are portrayed as geeky, unimaginative people who find it hard to get a snog.
  • (3) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
  • (4) The most insidiously evil programme on the schedule – Snog, Marry, Avoid – claims to encourage young women to realise that they don't need implants and hair extensions "for confidence", but actually tells them to lose their individualism, dresses them as Duchess of Cambridge clones and claims the transformation has been successful if it means that more men are attracted to them post-makeover.
  • (5) It was weird for me, too – seeing them at the altar rail, knowing that we'd been snogging the night before.
  • (6) Although BBC3 shows such as Snog Marry Avoid have proved controversial, BBC3 has acted as a seed bed for new talent and ideas.
  • (7) The air smells clean and salty, families natter about everything and nothing, lapdogs snap, an earnest student sketches another earnest student, young lovers gently snog and strangers strike up friendships.
  • (8) "They talked, incomprehensibly, about "focused subgenre slates", which turned out to be management b******s for cutting edge tripe like Snog, Marry, Avoid.
  • (9) The ever vigilant Gawker users have remarked on the increase in stories like this one about Greece as well as the more traditional video clips of Miley Cyrus apparently snogging a woman It was endless videos of people throwing buckets of ice over their heads, a phenomenon which drove enormous amounts of traffic to Gawker last year, that finally prompted the change of heart.
  • (10) He then blew up a drug lord's laboratory, peeled off his wetsuit to reveal an immaculate white DJ, snogged an exotic dancer, clocked in her eyeballs the reflection of a bad guy sneaking up behind them, tipped said bad guy into the bathtub, threw an electric heater in after him, and quipped: "Shocking, positively shocking!"
  • (11) And, indeed, there aren't a lot here: meet, barbie, banter, snog.
  • (12) There aren't many people who can say they've been snogged by a hummingbird!
  • (13) At the time, she had a crush on a youth team player – "I fancied the pants off him; I think I might have snogged him once" – so she confided in her mother that she thought it might be him.
  • (14) Two can play the name dropping game - a friend of Small Talk's once snogged the lead singer of My Life Story.
  • (15) There is plenty of romance and the odd bit of snogging throughout the basement bar and upstairs cafe, but you are as likely to see lone customers with their laptops, relaxing after a workout at the gym, and couples dropping in after a day's shopping.
  • (16) The best drama prize was won by BBC Radio 3's People Snogging in Public Places.
  • (17) Beth Jordache (Anna Friel), Brookside (C4) 1993 Bordering on psycho-dyke territory as Beth, witness to and victim of familial sexual abuse, turned to bezzie mate Margaret for a Christmas Eve snog, as you do.
  • (18) "I got snogged by Kiefer Sutherland, which was a personal triumph and highlight.
  • (19) But it has also proved controversial, with shows such as Hotter than my Daughter, My Man Boobs and Me, Snog, Marry, Avoid?
  • (20) Alec Shelbrooke (Con, Elmet and Rothwell) came in at four for me, though this is obviously only a parlour game as theoretical as Snog, Marry, Avoid (and just be glad you aren't even required to contemplate two of those options).

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