Wiktionary

kiss

See also: KISS and Kiss

EnglishEdit

 
A woman kissing a baby

PronunciationEdit

  • enPR: kĭs, IPA(key): /kɪs/, [kʰɪs]
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  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English kissen, kussen, from Old English cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną (“to kiss”), cognates include Danish kysse, Dutch kussen, German küssen, Icelandic kyssa, Norwegian kysse and Swedish kyssa. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ku, *kus (probably imitative), with cognates including Ancient Greek κύσσω (kússō), poetic form of κύσω (kúsō, “to kiss”), and Hittite [script needed] (kuwassanzi, “they kiss”).

VerbEdit

kiss (third-person singular simple present kisses, present participle kissing, simple past and past participle kissed)

  1. (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
    • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
      He […] kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.
    • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2
      I'll kiss thy foot. I'll swear myself thy subject.
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
      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.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) 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.
  3. (intransitive) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
  4. (transitive, archaic) To treat with fondness.
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Etymology 2Edit

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.

NounEdit

kiss (plural kisses)

  1. A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
  2. An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message.
  3. A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
  4. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth, conjunction.

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Terms derived from the noun or verb kiss

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VerbEdit

kiss

  1. Alternative form of kissen

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Partly imitative, partly an euphemism for piss (see pissa (“to pee”)).

NounEdit

kiss n (uncountable)

  1. pee, wee, tinkle, urine

DeclensionEdit

Declension of kiss 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative kiss kisset — —
Genitive kiss kissets — —

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