#95728
02/15/2003 9:54 PM
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In TIME for Feb.17 review of William Boyd's "Any Human Heart" the reviewer says "....in what amounts to literary incest, Mounstuart indulges in a brief snog with Waugh himself." I found a page on BBC news that uses "snog" as a teenage term for osculation. Somehow that doesn't seem to fit the use in the book review. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1443007.stm#mapComments, please. Bonzaialsatian, where are you when I need you? Or dodyskin, who has been neglecting us for too long.
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#95729
02/15/2003 9:57 PM
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While familiar with "snog", and happy with its use in the snippet you provided, I'm much more interested in the word "Brotosj" - please elucidate. 
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#95730
02/15/2003 10:03 PM
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Dear sjm: Typos get away from me much easier than they used to. I can check them only
out of corner of my left eye. Somehow I have difficulty imagining two male superegotists
"swapping spit". Even if one of them is fictitious.
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#95731
02/16/2003 10:14 AM
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enthusiast
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I've always known the word snog as slang for (quoting from the site) Kissing with all the trimmings - except dribble., though in the stories I've heard it's always dribble included  .I was a bit suprised about the British origin though - for some reason I'd always thought that 'snog' came from the US. Another thing: fringe is slang? I'm confused.
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#95732
02/16/2003 11:05 AM
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> Somehow I have difficulty imagining two male superegotists
"swapping spit".
Perhaps your oversight was that its use in the text is in a purely metaphorical sense intended to be witty. Of course 'snog' might just be a type-o fir 'song' ;-)
Rather than snog, I've always, as an Australian born English speaker, liked 'to pash (on)'.
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#95733
02/16/2003 2:23 PM
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From one OldTimer to another : snog = smooch = "making out."
And a Big Smooch to you, you ol' devil!
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#95734
02/17/2003 9:24 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Snog is, as far as I know, purely British in origin. As BY points out, the antipodes have their own cultivars, as do the USns.
- Pfranz
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#95735
02/17/2003 5:08 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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From one OldTimer to another : snog = smooch = "making out."
That's correct. It has always seemed to me to have an unpleasant sound for what should be a pleasant enough occupation. Teenagers enjoy doing that with the words they invent, I think. I guess its a form of rhetoric, is there a word for it?
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#95736
02/17/2003 5:51 PM
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:Understatement is both UK and US disinclination "to shoot sparrows with a cannon". So
it is an extension of understatement to use a seemingly derogatory term rather than a
mawkish conventional term.
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#95737
02/17/2003 5:58 PM
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an extension of understatement to use a seemingly derogatory term
See also swap spit.
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#95738
02/18/2003 4:17 AM
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And the likewise descriptive suck face
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