"smoodge" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /smuːd͡ʒ/ Forms: smoodges [present, singular, third-person], smoodging [participle, present], smoodged [participle, past], smoodged [past]
Rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ Etymology: From British dialect. Australian from 1898. Head templates: {{en-verb}} smoodge (third-person singular simple present smoodges, present participle smoodging, simple past and past participle smoodged)
  1. (Australia) To act in an ingratiating manner; to fawn. Tags: Australia
    Sense id: en-smoodge-en-verb-vLFcOo72 Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54
  2. (Australia, slang, dated) To kiss and cuddle; to canoodle. Tags: Australia, dated, slang
    Sense id: en-smoodge-en-verb-srL9OGX4 Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1903 February 3, Political Labor League of New South Wales: Annual Conference, minutes, 2006, Michael Hogan (editor), Labor Pains: Early Conference and Executive Reports of the Labor Party of NSW, page 376,\nMr Grant, in reply, was not in favor of the way the bureau was conducted. There was no rotation system, but a straight-out smoodging system, and therein was his objection. Give us the bureau, but let there be no smoodging to the foreman.\nThe motion was lost."
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          "text": "1936, Brian Penton, Inheritors, 2003, facsimile, Sydney University Press, Print on Demand Service, page 289,\n“ […] We ain′t cowards to give up our swag to Cabell on the off-chance of smoodging charity from strangers.”"
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