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

[Sallie Lemons]

Wasn't "sucking face" used on On Golden Pond by the kid character?  I would
think that might qualify it as something other than new? No?

"A. Vine" wrote:

> "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.
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