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Kiss

//kɪs// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Hungarian.
Noun
  1. 1
    A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.

    "“It was the most absurd kiss. I don't believe he'd ever kissed a woman in his life before. I threw my head back, and it was a sort of slidy, pecking dab, just on the end of the chin — here.” Mrs. Hauksbee tapped her masculine little chin with her fan."

  2. 2
    a light glancing touch wordnet
  3. 3
    An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message, signifying the bestowal of a kiss from the sender to the receiver.

    "With some satisfaction, Gergory read this through twice, signed it and added kisses[.]"

  4. 4
    the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) wordnet
  5. 5
    A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
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  1. 6
    any of several bite-sized candies wordnet
  2. 7
    The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth; conjunction.
  3. 8
    a cookie made of egg whites and sugar wordnet
  4. 9
    A low-speed mid-air collision between the envelopes of two hot air balloons, generally causing no damage or injury.
Verb
  1. 1
    To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting. transitive

    "He […] kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed."

  2. 2
    Acronym of keep it simple, stupid. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

    "KISS when you're writing."

  3. 3
    touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. wordnet
  4. 4
    To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact. ambitransitive

    "The nearside of the car just kissed a parked truck as he took the corner at high speed."

  5. 5
    touch lightly or gently wordnet
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  1. 6
    Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion. reciprocal

    "We're kissing in the moonlight / Love was shining so bright and true"

  2. 7
    To treat with fondness. archaic, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

* As a Hungarian surname, from Kiss. * As an English surname of Norman origin, from Anglo-Norman cuisse (“thigh”).

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