smoodge

Updated: May 7, 2025

Creatures, a few months previously ranked lower than an almost imbecile man, and with no more voice in the laws they lived under than had lunatics or horses it was miraculous what a power they had suddenly grown! The man at the back saw the point "Blow it all, don't smoodge so. It ain't long since you was all rared up on yer hind legs showin' how things would go to fury if wimmen had the vote."

Miles Franklin - Some Everyday Folk and Dawn