snog

1 of 2

verb

ˈsnäg 

snogged; snogging; snogs

transitive + intransitive

chiefly British, informal

: to kiss and caress (someone) passionately

I don't have any regrets—we've all had relationships, we've all snogged the wrong person …

—John Torode

"It'll be the same as it always is," I said. "After an hour you'll be off somewhere snogging the prettiest girl at the party, and I'll be in the kitchen listening to somebody's mum going on about politics or poetry or something."

—Neil Gaiman

The couple were first linked together last summer after they were spotted eating ice cream together and were also seen snogging in Ibiza in September.

—Connie Bowker

snog

2 of 2

noun

plural snogs

chiefly British, informal

: an act of kissing and caressing

Back then, long-term relationships were forged with a snog in the back of a taxi on the way home from Soho.

—Stacey Duguid

They were the sort of snogs you had in the playground—brief, theatrical, harmless and damp.

—Lisa Ball

Word History

Etymology

Verb

perhaps phonesthemic derivative of snug entry 1 or snug entry 2 and snugg- in snuggle.

Note: The verb occurs earliest in the gerund snogging. Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary records the verb snug in the sense "to hug, fondle" as well as "to nestle" (citations from Cumberland and Suffolk).

Noun

derivative of snog entry 1

First Known Use

Verb

1962, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1959, in the meaning defined above