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osculate

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/
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/ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/ · /ˈɒskjəˌleɪt/ · /ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/ · /ˈɑskjuˌleɪt/ · /ˈɒskjʊlət/ · /ˈɒskjələt/ · /ˈɑskjələt/ · /ˈɑskjulət/

Definition of osculate

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To kiss.
    “And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.”
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verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To kiss.
    “And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.”
  2. To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
  3. (intransitive)To make contact.
  4. (Vedic)To perform osculation.
  5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Relating to kissing.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ōsculātus, perfect active participle of ōsculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ōsculum (“a kiss”) + -or (verbal suffix), from ōs (“mouth”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). See also oscillate.

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