snog

verb

ˈsnäg 

snogged; snogging; snogs

transitive + intransitive

chiefly British, informal

: to kiss and caress (someone) passionately

I don't have any regrets—we've all had relationships, we've all snogged the wrong person …

—John Torode

"It'll be the same as it always is," I said. "After an hour you'll be off somewhere snogging the prettiest girl at the party, and I'll be in the kitchen listening to somebody's mum going on about politics or poetry or something."

—Neil Gaiman

The couple were first linked together last summer after they were spotted eating ice cream together and were also seen snogging in Ibiza in September.

—Connie Bowker

Examples of snog in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Which renders the cataclysmic decision of who Nancy might choose to snog next rather anticlimactic, and maybe even redundant. —Charley Ross, Glamour, 29 Nov. 2025

Over the past few years, Teasdale has grown to embrace the slow mornings and simple comforts that come with being a homebody, and Moisturizer, Wet Leg’s bright, celestial second album, captures small-hours moments, sofa snogs and falling into the buoyant daze of doing nothing all day. —Sophie Williams, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025

Derry Girls, a new TV series set in 1990s Northern Ireland, chronicles the adventures of Catholic school girls who care less about religious divides than about finding cute Protestant boys to snog. —Jeremy Shapiro, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2020

Word History

Etymology

perhaps phonesthemic derivative of snug entry 1 or snug entry 2 and snugg- in snuggle.

Note: The verb occurs earliest in the gerund snogging. Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary records the verb snug in the sense "to hug, fondle" as well as "to nestle" (citations from Cumberland and Suffolk).

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above