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

jester at PANIX.COM jester at PANIX.COM
Thu May 25 20:39:39 UTC 2000


Steve the K. wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, A. Maberry wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Knowing my friends, that's probably exactly where they got it.

_snogging_ is almost exclusively British; I've never heard it
used in America.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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