Thesaurus:kiss

Thesaurus

kiss

English

Noun

Sense: kiss; touching with the lips

Synonyms

• buss    [⇒ thesaurus]
• kiss
• lip clap (obsolete)
• osculation
• smooch
• sugar
• Yankee dime (US, idiomatic, slang)

Hyponyms

• butterfly kiss
• French kiss
• liplock (chiefly US)
• peck
• smack
• smacker
• smackeroo
• snog (UK)
• soul kiss
• tongue kiss

Hypernyms

• gesture
• touch

Various

• 💏
• 💋
• first base (US, colloquial)
• Eskimo kiss
• kissing booth
• mwah
• SWAK
• SWALK
•   —
• kissathon
• kissfest
• smoochfest
• snogfest
•   —
• kiss chase
• spin the bottle

Verb

Sense: to kiss; to touch with the lips

Synonyms

• buss    [⇒ thesaurus]
• goozer
• kiss
• lallygag (archaic, US)
• lips (MLE)
• lock lips
• make out (US)
• osculate
• pash (Australia)
• play tonsil hockey
• smooch
• snog (UK)
• suck face
• swap spit

Hyponyms

• air kiss
• blow a kiss
• French kiss
• get off with (UK)
• get to first base (US)
• meet
• mwah-mwah
• neck (chiefly US)
• tongue
• tongue kiss

Holonyms

• caress
• greeting    [⇒ thesaurus]

Coordinate terms

• embrace    [⇒ thesaurus]
• fondle    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “902. endearment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “kiss” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.