QUERY: This one's gonna be fun...

[A. Vine]

"A. Maberry" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Steve K. wrote:
>
> > What exactly constitutes first base anymore? Handholding? Kissing?
> >
> > I've heard 'snogging' but that was peculiar to a weird group of
> > friends. Snuggling? Or is that prior to first?
>
> I think Monty Python used snoggin' in a sketch titled "Britains Most
> Disgusting Family" in their "Now for Something Completely
> Different" (1971). A young woman is accused by her mother(?), I think, of
> "snoggin'" on the couch with her boyfriend.
>
> Allen
> maberry at u.washington.edu

"Snogging" may be a British term - my husband uses it.
More US terms are "sucking face" and "making out", but I don't know what's
currently used.