osculate

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Squeeze tiny hands and osculate;

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  1. transitive verb To kiss.
  2. transitive verb Mathematics To have three or more points coincident with.
  3. intransitive verb To come together; contact.

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  • But watch again and something happens: you see a moment both sweet and wry as a couple shyly osculate in "The Kiss," a quiet dignity beneath the brawny bravado in "Sandow: The Strong Man." —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • That there are points on which the moral systems of men and nations osculate, is most true; that there should have been certain approximations on many most important subjects was to be expected from the essential identity of human nature, in all ages and countries; but their deviations in some point or other--usually in several--from what we acknowledge to be both right and expedient, is equally undeniable. —  The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
  • He and all the REST of his kind can osculate my superannuated queer posterior. —  365 Gay News
  • The form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung. osculate v. To kiss. odious adj. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Squeeze tiny hands and osculate; —  Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin ōsculārī, ōsculāt-, from ōsculum, kiss, diminutive of ōs, mouth; see ōs- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin osculatus, past participle of osculari, kiss, from osculum, a little mouth, a pretty mouth, a kiss, diminutive of os, a mouth: see os, oral, etc.
 

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/ˈɑskjuleɪt/
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