smouches

In "The Research Magnificent" he smouches an idea from Nietzsche, and then mauls it so badly that one begins to wonder whether he is in favor of it or against it.

Prejudices : first series, 1919

I say, maties, here’s bad luck to Bet of the jetty, and to all the rascally smouches and humbugs of Sheerness.” — (Chorus.) “Then we’ll drink and be jolly, and drown melan -

Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829