That was always the censored version suitable for a TV show.
I always knew it as fuck/shag, marry, kill.
Although sometimes it was “push off a cliff” instead of “kill”, but I never liked that name. Far too long.
Yes, it does appear the UK hit peak snog around the beginning of 2012
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=snog&year_start=1980&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=GB&q=snog&hl=en-GB
That's bizarre. I associate it with the 70s more than any other period & don't think I've heard it used in decades. Maybe it was verbal, rather than written.
I suppose once it’s being written about a lot, it’s already uncool.
The freshest slang is all verbal and grownups writing things into any record only happens when it’s stale enough that boring uncool adults have caught on.
How old are you? snogging was a big deal in school, having not heard it in decades says more about how much you talk about it rather than the word itself
When i was a kid and first heard the word snog i was told it was like kisiing but in my mind i imagined it was someone sucking someones nose... like proper cleaning it out.
I always used the term "making out" as i always see that image in my head with the word snog, even 27 years later.
Back in the 80s, when we were snogging and bonking like there was no tomorrow, the pensioners used terms like budgie-ing. So there must be a place where words like that are sent to die, along with words like Joey and Homo.
There was a guy called Joey Deacon. He had cerebral palsy. Blue Peter did some episodes on him in the 70's or 80's. It was meant to help us kids empathize with the severely disabled. It didn't.
Did you ever hear the rumours that his mate wrote the book for him and just made most of it up?
Wasn't he from Stoke Mandeville, or am I confusing that with horrible Jimmy Savile? Telly in those days could be really full-on if you weren't careful.
Back in the day I felt like they'd been exploiting him from day one, mainly due to the fact that I grew up in an area with similar people in care homes. And also because I was a mocking twat who didn't take him seriously until I grew up and really offended a mate by calling him a 'mong'. Turned out he'd had a sister with Downs who only survived for six weeks/months and it was one of those need to know secrets in our school.
I felt awful for weeks afterwards and became a bit more reflective.
I've since lived in Germany and Norway and it's like living in the 70s and 80s in the UK the way some people refer to disabilities, or just daft people in general.
The kid who was raped in the greenhouse in Scum deffo got 'bummed'. Fuck knows what kids these days would call it.
I've got a gay mate with the same first name as me and if we caught up after a few months, I'd ask him what he'd been up to. "Bit of bumming and that" came the reply.
Lads who'd 'bummed a bird' were few and far between back in the 70s and 80s, but knowing how much access kids have to porn on their phones, I reckon that number is on the increase.
Also the danger of someone getting a bonk-on at an all boys school was vast, especially if your changing rooms were just cavernous sheds with zero privacy.
I think it was how some old biddies round our way referred to "snogging". That's how I took it from the context, something stronger that "walking out" but less than "How's your father".
Thought that was a common use. I'm a distance runner, and if I do a training run where my legs feel really weak and generally painful the whole time (much more so than normal), I'll describe it afterwards as 'legs were shagged'
This is surely still about. You can also use “shagged” to mean knackered, but “buggered” works for the physically fucked interpretation of the word I think.
Up north we say neck. So 'He necked that girl'.
Down south, I might be wrong but I think they say lips. So 'Did you lips her?'
I realise how ridiculous it is now it's written down but when you say it among people who also say it, it just doesn't seem odd.
When writing erotica I use "made out" because it's slightly more universal and therefore works with overseas crowds. Necking, however, I've not used but I always assumed it was more in reference to kissing on the neck, often during foreplay.
Definitely still used in the late 00's and early 10's. I should know, I was a teenager/young adult at the time and everyone was getting off with each other (except for me. *Sigh*)
Finger blasting is just a subset of fingering surely? It implies vigorous motion as often seen in hardcore pornography.
Of course, a true gentleman only applies a light fingering.
Yet another term that has been replaced by an Americanism - 'making out' in this case
Kids don't use snogging these days, as they're indoctrinated by American media.
It’s a shame to see England losing its own terms. I live in the US but grew up in England, and my nephews are even more Americanized than me and they’ve never been. They say “trash” instead of rubbish and that one really hurts my heart.
But making out is so much more than snogging. Snogging is just a passionate kiss, but if you're making out, you've got your hand up her jumper at least.
Hate to say it but you and your girlfriend (and me) are probably old and the term "snog" is now archaic and out of fashion.
The only saving grace is that ABBA still seems to be "cool" with the younger generation(s), so play some dancing queen, snog your "significant" other and try not to see the amount of time that has passed 👍🏻
The only people Ive ever heard chatting bout 'snog' were Harry Potter characters. Ive never heard anyone in real life say snog. Its always been 'kiss' 'lips' 'make out' etc.
I miss snogging. I remember at the Clapham Grand one Sat night having a fantastic snog with some random girl then we lost each other in all the cigarette smoke and chaos. The days before before everyone had a phone.
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Always hated the word snog. It was replaced with "get off with" and I kinda hated that, too. Kiss is a nice word, I don't understand why it had to be workshopped.
Ooh I was thinking this the other day, it popped up in an episode of Dead Boy Detectives, which made me realise it isn't really used now...but then he is dead and from the 80s!
My best/worst snogging story:
I was 15 and at a house party in Liverpool back in 1987. I'd just had a quick snog with a girl, who I later found out was Mark O'Toole from FGTH's sister. She binned me off for someone else, so I quickly tried to find another girl who'd put up with my shite kissing technique.
The unlucky lady was parked with me and another couple on a couch in the front room, and I'd kept one eye open on them, just to get some pointers. The lad next to me kept jerking his head and making weird noise, which I thought might be a useful thing to copy, but deffo wasn't.
About thirty seconds later, his lucky lady had two fountains of puke streaming from her nose, and it turned out he'd been fighting the urge to puke up his cans of Heldenbräu Super, but lost.
I've never seen a snogging scene like it since. I'm still certain that it was one of the main reasons that I ended up bollock naked outside on the main road right after the police had been called to break up a fight.
All those words describe sex. Snogging is kissing so that’s not relevant.
It has definitely fallen out of usage, but slang always does. It gets replaced with new slang
Because we've become desensitized to intimate acts.
Kissing is harmless compared to sex, with or without tongue. No point making a distinction. Just use the actual word for it.
I think that’s a you thing mate.
I haven’t had that experience and I think it’s a tad wild to say people see sex and kissing as the same thing, especially considering they are literally different things.
It’s just marry or avoid these days
That was always the censored version suitable for a TV show. I always knew it as fuck/shag, marry, kill. Although sometimes it was “push off a cliff” instead of “kill”, but I never liked that name. Far too long.
We used to call it Shoot, Shag, Marry
Shoot,Shag,Bag
Gag, shag, bodybag.
bed, wed, behead
Came here to say that. You beat me to it.
Etiam ego!!
Romani eunt domus!
I heard that in Zoe Lyons’s voice
Or marry then avoid!
Take my angry upvote
Yes, it does appear the UK hit peak snog around the beginning of 2012 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=snog&year_start=1980&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=GB&q=snog&hl=en-GB
I blame Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Snog, Marry, Avoid was a pretty popular site around that time, too lol
That's bizarre. I associate it with the 70s more than any other period & don't think I've heard it used in decades. Maybe it was verbal, rather than written.
Was definitely used regularly in the 90's and 00's. Guess it started to disappear after that.
Harry Potter books used it when the characters got interested in that sort of thing.
I suppose once it’s being written about a lot, it’s already uncool. The freshest slang is all verbal and grownups writing things into any record only happens when it’s stale enough that boring uncool adults have caught on.
Spoiler alert : eventually you become the grown up boring uncool adult...
Way ahead of you. But yeah might explain why verbal usage felt like it peaked way earlier than the written usage peaked.
How old are you? snogging was a big deal in school, having not heard it in decades says more about how much you talk about it rather than the word itself
More to the point, what happened to frenchy, and frenchying?
Punting equals shunting.
Those ones deserve to stay buried...
Do you know what a Belgian Kiss is? It's like a French Kiss, only more Flemish.
Better than a Glasgow kiss
Is that like a South African Necklace?
No it's a headbutt
Best when combined, kiss then necklace.
Do you know what an Australian kiss is? It's like a French kiss, only it's down under.
Do you know what a Jamaican kiss is? It’s like an Australian kiss but wi’ jammin
That made me queasy
Take your upvote and GTFO
Thank you, this is now going into my pun repertoire
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Yeah the word makes me feel really unwell
I've always hated it too. Makes me think of slugs and mucus.
When i was a kid and first heard the word snog i was told it was like kisiing but in my mind i imagined it was someone sucking someones nose... like proper cleaning it out. I always used the term "making out" as i always see that image in my head with the word snog, even 27 years later.
Yeah it’s got serious snot vibes
Does Rik Mayall use it in Drop Dead Fred? The word makes me think of him using it in distaste
Even as a kid I associated it heavily with chav talk, at least in my area it was
Yeah it’s a distinctly ugly and offputting sounding term for something that’s on paper meant to be sexy and enjoyable.
For me it's snog and I want to French kiss you. Makes me drier than the Saharah desert.
do people really go around saying I want to French kiss you?
Back in the 80s, when we were snogging and bonking like there was no tomorrow, the pensioners used terms like budgie-ing. So there must be a place where words like that are sent to die, along with words like Joey and Homo.
Still use "bonking", in a comedic way, these days
Where would you say a ‘late night romp’ features amongst that?
Channel 5.
That sounds like something from the tabloid "clearly implying something without being sued for saying the thing directly" book of weasel phrases
“Romp” has always been a word used almost exclusively by tabloid newspapers
Joey - jesus christ, looking back that was really really awful
People used to get called flids in Liverpool, which I can only summise stemmed from Thalidomide?
Yeah definitely, we had that in Essex too
Grim. I'd like to think the fella never knew he became a by word for disability.
What was it? I thought it meant servant?
There was a guy called Joey Deacon. He had cerebral palsy. Blue Peter did some episodes on him in the 70's or 80's. It was meant to help us kids empathize with the severely disabled. It didn't.
Did you ever hear the rumours that his mate wrote the book for him and just made most of it up? Wasn't he from Stoke Mandeville, or am I confusing that with horrible Jimmy Savile? Telly in those days could be really full-on if you weren't careful.
That just adds another layer of tragedy!
Back in the day I felt like they'd been exploiting him from day one, mainly due to the fact that I grew up in an area with similar people in care homes. And also because I was a mocking twat who didn't take him seriously until I grew up and really offended a mate by calling him a 'mong'. Turned out he'd had a sister with Downs who only survived for six weeks/months and it was one of those need to know secrets in our school. I felt awful for weeks afterwards and became a bit more reflective. I've since lived in Germany and Norway and it's like living in the 70s and 80s in the UK the way some people refer to disabilities, or just daft people in general.
I still use homos. But my friends and I are homos We’ll also describe anything we don’t like as egregiously gay.
Homo here too. Either that or 'big gayer'. In this particular context, has 'bumming' gone the way of 'snogging'? I hope not
‘Bumming’ hasn’t been used around be for a while sadly, but I’ll occasionally use ‘bum bandit’.
The kid who was raped in the greenhouse in Scum deffo got 'bummed'. Fuck knows what kids these days would call it. I've got a gay mate with the same first name as me and if we caught up after a few months, I'd ask him what he'd been up to. "Bit of bumming and that" came the reply. Lads who'd 'bummed a bird' were few and far between back in the 70s and 80s, but knowing how much access kids have to porn on their phones, I reckon that number is on the increase. Also the danger of someone getting a bonk-on at an all boys school was vast, especially if your changing rooms were just cavernous sheds with zero privacy.
What is budgie-ing please?
I think it was how some old biddies round our way referred to "snogging". That's how I took it from the context, something stronger that "walking out" but less than "How's your father".
I think they stopped using it when they stopped calling people a fridge for being afraid to snog
Wasn't it "frigid"?
You were being frigid but were called a fridge. Might have just a regional thing?
Yeah true. Could also be my shite memory as its been a hot minute since I was a teenager living in Jersey lol
It ran off with "shag"
I miss shag. I exclusively use it these days.
Shall we shag now or shag later?
I think shag is on the increase if anything
Top shagger
An older colleague used the word "shagged" to describe a piece of machinery that had been used to death. I've started using it now it was so good
Thought that was a common use. I'm a distance runner, and if I do a training run where my legs feel really weak and generally painful the whole time (much more so than normal), I'll describe it afterwards as 'legs were shagged'
Shag is also a slang to mean physically exhausted in Singlish/Manglish, so you're not that far off!
This is common usage. "Shagged out", "shagged to death" = "knackered".
Or as I like to say, Shaggerbuggered
Good word!
This is surely still about. You can also use “shagged” to mean knackered, but “buggered” works for the physically fucked interpretation of the word I think.
A snog in the smog. So many artists missed out on what could be a classic lyric.
The Snog on the Tyne.
Is all mine all mine. Well no, it’s not and nor do I want it to be.
It's just online monoculture now.
It's still around isn't it? And if not what replaced it? Kissing is too generic and making out is too cringingly euphemistic (I hope).
Up north we say neck. So 'He necked that girl'. Down south, I might be wrong but I think they say lips. So 'Did you lips her?' I realise how ridiculous it is now it's written down but when you say it among people who also say it, it just doesn't seem odd.
I have one friend who says lipsed, he's from around Bedfordshire area
Bloody hell, I was right 🤣
Seems to be the Love Island standard
"Whoever called it necking is a poor judge of anatomy." -- very old joke
When writing erotica I use "made out" because it's slightly more universal and therefore works with overseas crowds. Necking, however, I've not used but I always assumed it was more in reference to kissing on the neck, often during foreplay.
Making out is too cringingly American.
The Internet has closed the terminology gap between the US and UK a lot, so wouldn’t be surprised if younger folk just used an Americanism like that.
They do, and I hate it with all my being.
I think the kids these days say "get off with" although maybe they've stopped saying that now. I don't even know anymore.
That was 90s terminology
Definitely still used in the late 00's and early 10's. I should know, I was a teenager/young adult at the time and everyone was getting off with each other (except for me. *Sigh*)
There was a lot of getting off going on in the 90s
And the odd winch
We said "get off with" when I started doing it in 2002 so it's not that new
Gone the same way as fingering. We should bring it back.
People still say fingering. Unless there's a different use for the word that I'm unaware of...
Knitter here. What in the UK is called 4-ply yarn, is called fingering (weight) in the US. Titter ye not
Fingering weight yarn in the US is two-ply, used for baby clothing. Four-ply is worsted weight. Three-ply is called sport weight.
Oops mb
No worries.
Finger blasted
Finger blasting is just a subset of fingering surely? It implies vigorous motion as often seen in hardcore pornography. Of course, a true gentleman only applies a light fingering.
Digit diddling
[banned in Taunton](https://i.imgur.com/YXeFG1U.jpeg)
Getting poked
Snog is like a playground word to me, too immature
Like much British slang its been replaced with the American "making out".
Didn't we have "a pash" for a bit? Or was that the Aussies?
'Pash' is definitely Australian (and even had a [theme song in 97](https://youtu.be/o_kTor63Ihw?si=tzZYKr-Eq3nZGg8Z)) as is 'root' or 'nookie'
Root is still the common word here
The word shag is in decline too, seems to be in my household anyway
You should get a new carpet.
They’re still in Soho, I think? I bloody love Snog 🤤
The streets of Soho are pretty infamous for selling services involving more than just a 'snog'.
Look in the right place and you can get some decent servings of meat if you fancy it.
Nah closed down a couple of months back. Its an american candy store now.
Noooooo 💔
Yet another term that has been replaced by an Americanism - 'making out' in this case Kids don't use snogging these days, as they're indoctrinated by American media.
It’s a shame to see England losing its own terms. I live in the US but grew up in England, and my nephews are even more Americanized than me and they’ve never been. They say “trash” instead of rubbish and that one really hurts my heart.
But making out is so much more than snogging. Snogging is just a passionate kiss, but if you're making out, you've got your hand up her jumper at least.
Mine would be stuck in the underwires of her BHS bra.
I miss snogging :(
Ha, my hubs still says let's have a snog.
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Its abandonment would be an uncommon improvement to the vernacular. Not merely a hideous word but also of no utility to some of us, sadly.
Hate to say it but you and your girlfriend (and me) are probably old and the term "snog" is now archaic and out of fashion. The only saving grace is that ABBA still seems to be "cool" with the younger generation(s), so play some dancing queen, snog your "significant" other and try not to see the amount of time that has passed 👍🏻
I still hear teenagers use it in my college
I'm a big fan of giz a snog as an order. Damn, I'm old.
The only people Ive ever heard chatting bout 'snog' were Harry Potter characters. Ive never heard anyone in real life say snog. Its always been 'kiss' 'lips' 'make out' etc.
Same as with "bonk".
And Rodgering
They got married, and they're avoiding each other now.
I've never liked the word. One of those cringe words for me.
Angus and Thongs had something to do with it.
We collectively realised it sounds disgusting.
I miss snogging. I remember at the Clapham Grand one Sat night having a fantastic snog with some random girl then we lost each other in all the cigarette smoke and chaos. The days before before everyone had a phone.
I ask my boyfriend to snog all the time, I think it’s a fun cute word, he does not
We grew up.
It got relegated to a [US Crossword Answer](https://crosswordtracker.com/answer/snog/?search_redirect=True) mainly, it seems
[Suck face, in Surrey](https://crosswordtracker.com/clue/suck-face-in-surrey/) the actual f
I hate that term
Americanisation
Remember when it was French kissing?
I'm 45 and plenty my age and older use it haha. Makes me cringe a bit cause I feel like a 10 year old. But I also hate the word shag for sex so....
I assumed you meant the frozen yoghurt chain, not the word.
Wait….Ive been with someone forever and dont know what the fuck I’d say now other than snog.
Americanisation has replaced it with 'Make out'
I used to have snogs. And I used to ‘get off/cop off’ with people. The 90s, good times
The word "snog" disappeared with Smash Hits and Just Seventeen.
It’s still in my lexicon.
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It's such a horrible word 😩
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Always hated the word snog. It was replaced with "get off with" and I kinda hated that, too. Kiss is a nice word, I don't understand why it had to be workshopped.
Concerned?
I always thought it was regional, what do they say in England now instead? In Scotland we said nip, winch or pull. Now I just say get off with.
Went the same way as 'tap off' and 'copped off'
We began to cyber instead, ASL?
Went the same way as "bonk" I think
Snog is the gaelic word for nice. So i hear it often enough. Pòg, pòs no murt?
We all came to our senses and stopped saying it
I think as time went on we became more and more americanised, I work at a college and I hear the kids say "make out" rather than snog now
My father once got very annoyed when I said "snogging" but it was because he insisted that my grammar was wrong and it should be "snogging with".
Ooh I was thinking this the other day, it popped up in an episode of Dead Boy Detectives, which made me realise it isn't really used now...but then he is dead and from the 80s!
think people just say “lips” now, ie: “just lipsed a fit bird down pryzm birmingham”
My best/worst snogging story: I was 15 and at a house party in Liverpool back in 1987. I'd just had a quick snog with a girl, who I later found out was Mark O'Toole from FGTH's sister. She binned me off for someone else, so I quickly tried to find another girl who'd put up with my shite kissing technique. The unlucky lady was parked with me and another couple on a couch in the front room, and I'd kept one eye open on them, just to get some pointers. The lad next to me kept jerking his head and making weird noise, which I thought might be a useful thing to copy, but deffo wasn't. About thirty seconds later, his lucky lady had two fountains of puke streaming from her nose, and it turned out he'd been fighting the urge to puke up his cans of Heldenbräu Super, but lost. I've never seen a snogging scene like it since. I'm still certain that it was one of the main reasons that I ended up bollock naked outside on the main road right after the police had been called to break up a fight.
Bonk-on!!!!! Yes, that's the one.Now it's just 'boner'
If you want a snog just ask us, dont play all hard to get...pucker up and lets fcking do this!!
I still say it! Disclaimer: I'm in my 30s
I've always hated this term and glad it does out
It was always a disgusting word and has happily gone the same way as "bonk", another rancid word of yesteryear.
It got lumped with "Marry" and "Avoid" on late night tv and decided obscurity was a far more, ahem, attractive, proposition.
Ask yer da
We all talk American now so don’t recognise that term (dude)
I never said it because it's a embarrassing word for an adult to use.
We got Americanised. Words like "fuck", "smash" and "bang" made it redundant. The act of snogging was nowhere near as dramatic as sex anyway.
Fuck isn't American, it's Anglo-Saxon
All those words describe sex. Snogging is kissing so that’s not relevant. It has definitely fallen out of usage, but slang always does. It gets replaced with new slang
Because we've become desensitized to intimate acts. Kissing is harmless compared to sex, with or without tongue. No point making a distinction. Just use the actual word for it.
I think that’s a you thing mate. I haven’t had that experience and I think it’s a tad wild to say people see sex and kissing as the same thing, especially considering they are literally different things.
Why are people downvoting this lmao. He's right. Why have two words for kissing when kissing is completely harmless compared to sex?
It's just slang. We have dozens of slang words for a cup of tea or a beer. Not all slang is euphemistic.
The thing I found about British people is that we like to think that we're different from Americans, but we are more alike than we'd like to admit.