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Kissing   /kˈɪsɪŋ/   Listen
Kissing

noun
1.
Affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs).  Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling.



Kiss

verb
(past & past part. kissed;pres. part. kissing)
1.
Touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc..  Synonyms: buss, osculate, snog.  "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room"
2.
Touch lightly or gently.



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"Kissing" Quotes from Famous Books



... tell me that you are satisfied!" she said, kissing the tender cheeks, and gazing with wistful earnestness into the eyes that so frankly and bravely ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... while the sinister look on Master Leoni's countenance deepened as he half closed his eyes, at heart enjoying the scene; for the youth advanced with the frank, manly courtesy of a young Englishman, and instead of bending over and kissing, courtier-like, the extended hand, he took it and shook ...
— The King's Esquires - The Jewel of France • George Manville Fenn

... now, either. I won't have it. Didn't I tell you I wouldn't? Besides," she added, with a little leap of laughter in her voice, "why should you ask pardon for kissing the girl you were ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine

... falling on your silver'd skull, My fingers in the valleys of your cheeks, Or my hands in your thin strong hands fast caught, Your body clutched to mine, mine bent to yours: Now love undying feeds on love beautiful, Now, now I am but thought kissing your thought ... —And can it be in your heart's music speaks A deeper rhythm hearing mine: can it be Indeed ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various

... Doro," whispered Roger, kissing her good-night, "we may go to Tanglewood Park for the Christmas tree. Nat promised we could—and then perhaps we will ...
— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose


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