smoodge

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
smoodge /smuːʤ/ (also smooge) Austral./NZ informal

▶verb

• 1 behave amorously.

• 2 behave in an ingratiating manner.

▶noun

• 1 a display of amorous affection.

• 2 an act or instance of being ingratiating.

– derivatives
smoodger noun.

– origin early 20th cent.: prob. an alt. of dial. smouch ‘kiss, sidle up to’.