kiss
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- //kɪs//
- /[kʰɪs]/
To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
verb
- 1
To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
He […] kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.
I'll kiss thy foot. I'll swear myself thy subject.
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
I kissed a girl and I liked it / The taste of her cherry chapstick / I kissed a girl just to try it / I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
- 2
To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
The nearside of the car just kissed a parked truck as he took the corner at high speed.
His ball kissed the black into the corner pocket.
Like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume.
Rose, rose and clematis, / Trail and twine and clasp and kiss, / Kiss, kiss; and make her a bower / All of flowers, and drop me a flower, / Drop me a flower.
- 3
Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
We're kissing in the moonlight / Love was shining so bright and true
- 4
archaicTo treat with fondness.
Etymology
From Middle English kissen, kussen, from Old English cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-West Germanic *kussijan, from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną (“to kiss”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian küsje, Dutch kussen, German Low German küssen, German küssen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål kysse, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kyssa. Compare Proto-Indo-European *ku-, *kus- (probably imitative), with byspels including Ancient Greek κύσσω (kússō), poetic form of κύσω (kúsō, “to kiss”), and Hittite [script needed] (kuwassanzi, “they kiss”).
noun
- 1
A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
“It was the most absurd kiss. I don't believe he'd ever kissed a woman in his life before. I threw my head back, and it was a sort of slidy, pecking dab, just on the end of the chin — here.” Mrs. Hauksbee tapped her masculine little chin with her fan.
- 2
An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message, signifying the bestowal of a kiss from the sender to the receiver.
With some satisfaction, Gergory read this through twice, signed it and added kisses[.]
- 3
A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
- 4
The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth; conjunction.
- 5
A low-speed mid-air collision between the envelopes of two hot air balloons, generally causing no damage or injury.
Etymology
From Middle English kis, kys, kus, forms of cos influenced by kissen, from Old English coss, from Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.
Forms
- plural
- kisses
- past tense
- kissed, kist
- past participle
- kissed, kist
- present participle
- kissing
- third person singular
- kisses
kiss · To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
Kiss · A surname from Hungarian.kisser · One who kisses.kissing · That kisses; engaged in a kiss or kissing.