kissing
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of kissing
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of kiss
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verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of kiss
adj
- (not-comparable)That kisses; engaged in a kiss or kissing.
- (not-comparable)Just touching.
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The act of giving a kiss or making out.
“There began to be some movement preparatory to the resumption of our journey, and, after many huggings and kissings, the family parted, and the wagon drove off[…]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English kissynge, cussinde, from Old English cyssende, from Proto-West Germanic *kussijandī, from Proto-Germanic *kussijandz, equivalent to kiss + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian küsjend, Dutch kussend, German Low German küssend, German küssend, Swedish kyssande, Icelandic kyssandi.
Words you can make from kissing
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