snog

English

Etymology

Possibly from the same roots as snug (“to lie close”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snɒɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Verb

snog (third-person singular simple present snogs, present participle snogging, simple past and past participle snogged)

1. (Britain, colloquial) To kiss passionately.

   Synonyms: make out, (Australia) pash; see also Thesaurus:kiss

   • 2016 Alya, "Gamer", Miraculous

     This is about stepping up and representing, not snuggling up and snogging. This is serious business.

Translations

slang: kiss passionately

• Catalan: morrejar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跟某人舌吻 (gēn mǒurén shéwěn)

• Czech: muckat se (cs) impf, cicmat se impf, muchlovat se impf
• Finnish: imuttaa (fi)
• French: peloter (fr)
• German: knutschen (de), küssen (de)
• Greek: φασώνομαι (el) (fasónomai)
• Hungarian: csókolózik (hu)
• Icelandic: fara í sleik
• Italian: limonare (it), pomiciare (it), baciare (it), slinguare (it), fare l'amore (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kline, rote (no) (mess (around (with))

• Polish: migdalić się impf, uderzać w ślinę impf
• Spanish: morrearse (es), chapar (es)
• Swedish: hångla (sv)
• Welsh: swsio

Noun

snog (plural snogs)

1. (Britain, colloquial) A passionate kiss.
   • 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 13:

     And that was that. Where had I gone wrong? First night: park, fag, snog. Second night: ditto.

Translations

passionate kiss

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舌吻 (zh) (shéwěn)

• Finnish: imutus
• German: Schmatzer (de) m
• Greek: φάσωμα n (fásoma)
• Italian: bacio (it) m, limonata (it) f
• Romanian: sărut franțuzesc n, sărut profund n
• Russian: стра́стный поцелу́й (strástnyj pocelúj)

Anagrams

• NGOs, NGSO, Ngos, Song, gons, nogs, song

Danish

Etymology

From the Old Norse snókr (“a snake”) or snákr (“only in poetry; a snake”), from Proto-Germanic *snakô; cognates include the Swedish and Norwegian snok, Icelandic snákur (“a snake”), English snake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snoːɡ/, [snoːˀ]

Noun

snog c (singular definite snogen, plural indefinite snoge)

1. grass snake (Natrix natrix)

Declension

Declension of snog

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	snog	snogen	snoge	snogene
genitive	snogs	snogens	snoges	snogenes

References

• “snog” in Den Danske Ordbog

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sn̪ˠok/

Adjective

snog (comparative snoige)

1. nice, pretty

   A bheil thu gu snog? ― Are you doing alright?

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
snog	shnog after "an", t-snog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.