kiss

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This kiss was a real kiss, and rested on Mrs. Fisher's cheek a moment with a strange, soft sweetness When she saw whose it was, a deep flush spread over her face.

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  1. transitive verb To touch or caress with the lips as an expression of affection, greeting, respect, or amorousness.
  2. transitive verb To touch lightly or gently: flowers that were kissed by dew.
  3. transitive verb To strike lightly; brush against: barely kissed the other car with the bumper.
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  • A caress could mean more than a thousand words, and a kiss was a chorus without end. —  Witch Star.htm
  • When his lips touched hers, the kiss was all heat, and she was surrounded by the male scent that clung to him. —  CaptivatedByTheTycoon
  • Barley grabbed my shoulders with as little elegance as I had held onto the armoire a moment before, but his kiss was angelically graceful, his youthful experience pressing softly into my utter lack of it. —  The Historian
  • Then he kissed her in the semidarkened hallway at the back of the bar, and the kiss was as good as Marianne could have hoped, kind of sweet actually. —  Patterson, James - [Alex Cross 12] - Cross
  • He gripped her to him and she buried her face in his neck, and the pain of her kiss was the last thing he felt in this world. —  Red As Blood
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smile ·  embrace ·  gesture ·  whisper ·  tear ·  touch ·  glance ·  warmth ·  greet ·  joy ·  tenderness ·  cry

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kiss:   kisses ·  kissing ·  kissed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English kissen, from Old English cyssan.

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  1. from Middle English kiss, kyss, kys, cus, cuss (with vowel altered to suit the derived verb), orig. coss, cos, from Anglo-Saxon coss = Old Saxon kus = OFries. kos = Dutch kus = Middle Low German kus = Old High German cus, chus, Middle High German kus, kuz, German kuss = Icelandic koss = Swedish kyss = Danish kys, a kiss; perhaps connected with Gothic (Moesogothic) kustus, a proof, test (= Latin gustus, taste), from the verb, Anglo-Saxon ceósan, etc., choose: see choose and gust. Otherwise connected, in some way not explained, with Goth, kukjan, kiss, of which there is besides no Teutonic cognate. Cf. Welsh cus, cusan, Corn, cussin, a kiss.
  2. from Middle English kissen, kyssen (preterit kist, kiste), from Anglo-Saxon cyssan (preterit cyste) = Old Saxon kussjan = OFries. kessa = Dutch kussen = Middle Low German kussen = Old High German chussen, chussan, cussan, Middle High German G. küssen = Icelandic kyssa = Danish kysse = Swedish kyssa, kiss; from the noun: see kiss, n. Cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) kukjan, kiss.
 

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