snog

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /snɒɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /snɑɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

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

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, 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.

snog (plural snogs)

1. (British, Australia, 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.

• snoggle

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /snoːɡ/, [snoːˀ]

snog c (singular definite snogen, plural indefinite snoge)

1. grass snake (Natrix natrix)

• “snog” in Den Danske Ordbog

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• IPA^(key): /sn̪ˠok/

snog (comparative snoige)

1. nice, pretty

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