英语词汇smooch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	smooch
词源	smooch; smouch. Smooch, “to kiss or pet, to make love,” may oddly enough be another example of ethnic prejudice in lan- guage. Nobody has proved its origins, but it may derive from smouch, a favorite word of Mark Twain’s, which in its original sense meant to obtain illicitly by cheating or swindling. In all probability it comes from the derogatory Dutch Smous, “a Ger- man Jew,” this word possibly formed from the proper name Moses.
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