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Princeton's WordNet

  1. caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snugglingnoun

    affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)

Wiktionary

  1. kissingadjective

    Just touching.

Wikipedia

  1. kissing

    A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, sexual activity, sexual arousal, affection, respect, greeting, peace, and good luck, among many others. In some situations, a kiss is a ritual, formal or symbolic gesture indicating devotion, respect, or a sacramental. The word came from Old English cyssan ("to kiss"), in turn from coss ("a kiss").

ChatGPT

  1. kissing

    Kissing is the act of pressing one's lips against another person or an object, as a gesture of affection, respect, greeting, farewell, or desire. It could also involve slight sucking or light touching with the tongue. Kissing can also refer to touching or caressing with the lips as a sign of love, sexual desire, or greeting.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Kissing

    of Kiss

Wikidata

  1. Kissing

    Kissing is a municipality in the Aichach-Friedberg district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located just 10 km south of Augsburg and has about 11,200 inhabitants. Kissing was first mentioned in a document in 1050 AD as Chissingin, it was a minor regional centre of rule and jurisdiction called a Hofmark. In even earlier times, around 500, there was a thing hill nearby, which was later swept away by the floods of the river Lech. The surname Kissinger means inhabitant of Bad Kissingen.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of kissing in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of kissing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of kissing in a Sentence

  1. Hugh Hefner:

    I don't care about the act. I care about how he reacted to it and how I was told by the media what happened. That scarred me. The act Kendra Wilkinson was referring to was when Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett claims Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett was fondled through Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett basketball shorts by the model. Kendra Wilkinson explained that the incident occurred after Kendra Wilkinson went to the model’s home to buy some marijuana and encountered her nude and kissing another transgender woman when Kendra Wilkinson exited the restroom at the home. I saw something I thought I would never see in my life.

  2. Laura Weyrich:

    These particular organisms looks to be shared between Neanderthals and humans about 120,000 year ago, or about the time that humans and Neandertals were interbreeding, these interbreeding encounters were often described as brash, rough one-night stands, but if they were swapping oral microorganisms, it means they were also swapping spit. So, potentially kissing or food sharing would have been involved, which suggests that these encounters may have been much more friendly than anyone imagined.

  3. Chloe Goins:

    I came to and remember seeing this big man crouched over me. It was Bill Cosby, and Bill Cosby was at my feet, kind of licking and kissing them and I think Bill Cosby bit my toe as that’s what woke me up.

  4. Pat Boone:

    My first film ‘Bernadine,’ there were no love scenes in that film, now I go right in for ‘April Love’ and there are no love scenes in that script either… Our characters fall in love, but there was no kissing in the script. So I never talked to my wife about what happens if I’m asked to do some kissing in these movies I’m starting to make.

  5. Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops:

    While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

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