smoodge
[ smooj ]
/ smudʒ /
Save This Word!
verb (used without object), smoodged, smoodg·ing.Australian.
to curry favor; seek unwarranted recognition.
QUIZZES
QUIZ YOURSELF ON THE MANY TYPES OF NOUNS
They're everywhere you turn, but can you identify the 10 types of nouns easily? This quiz will test your mettle against singular, plural, concrete, abstract, common, proper, collective, compound, countable, and uncountable nouns!
Question 1 of 7
Shoelaces, rainbow, toothpaste, and haircuts are all what type of noun?
Meet Grammar Coach
Improve Your Writing
Origin of smoodge
First recorded in 1895–1900; perhaps alteration of smooch1
OTHER WORDS FROM smoodge
smoodger, nounWords nearby smoodge
Smolensk, Smollett, smolt, S.M.O.M., smooch, smoodge, smooth, smooth as silk, smoothbore, smooth breathing, smooth collie
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021
Example sentences from the Web for smoodge
Don't smoodge, old cockroach, let the other blokes blaze away, as we (the taxpayers) are paying dear for this spouting.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn|Miles Franklin
British Dictionary definitions for smoodge
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012