Kiss

Verb

 * 1)  To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to express love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting
 * 2)  To touch lightly or slightly.
 * 3)  Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
 * 4)  To mark a cross (X) after your name on a card, etc.

Noun

 * 1) A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
 * 2) A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.

Adverbs for Kiss
passionately; resoundingly; reverently; clumsily; violently; tenderly; airily; ravenously; earnestly; brazenly; soberly; intimately; exultantly; crudely; tantalizingly; fondly; perfunctorily; devoutly; dutifully; vivaciously; mutely; timorously.

Adjectives for Kiss
salt; sterile; spirltlike; melancholy; squandered; multiplied (pi); successive (pi); bought; barren; piteous; breathless; rapturous; wafted; indulgent; passionate; energetic; perfunctory; burning; glowing; inplacable; ungiven; farewell; hot; silent; fleeting; mute; deep-drawn; fruitful; horizontal; cancerous; treacherous; lovely; sisterhood; famished; tempting; punctuating; loving; holy; sovereign; furious; honeyed; guileless; humbled; fervent; furtive; impassioned; ardent; rarely-tempered; admiring; compassionate; seriocomic; reverent; vigorous; abstracted; random; sincere; airy; moist; reassuring; iron; eager; hasty; laughing; latter; timorous; broken; delicious.

Verbs for Kiss
bestow — upon; blow —; blush at —; brush —; cement with —; cling in —; dab —; dot with —; pluck —; press —; print — upon; promise with —; resist —; sever —; smother with —s; snatch —; steal —; taste —; tempt with —; wed in —; yield —; — disturbs; — enraptures; entrances; — pecks; — quenches; — subdues; — thrills.

Thesaurus for Kiss
abandon, accost, address, attouchement, bid good day, bid good morning, blow a kiss, bob, bow, bow to, breath, brush, brush by, buss, caress, come in contact, contact, contingence, curtsy, cutaneous sense, desert, dismiss, disregard, embrace, exchange greetings, feel, feeling, fingertip caress, flick, forsake, give up, glance, graze, greet, greeting, hail, hand-clasp, hand-mindedness, handshake, hello, hit, how-do-you-do, hug, ignore, impinge, impingement, impingence, kiss hands, lambency, lap, lick, lift the hat, light touch, lip, neck, nod, nod to, nudge, osculate, osculation, peck, pull the forelock, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, rub, salutation, salute, say hello, scrape, sense of touch, shake, shake hands, shave, sideswipe, skim, skirt, smack, smacker, smile, smile of recognition, smooch, spoon, squeak by, stroke, sweep, tactile sense, taction, tangency, tap, tentative contact, tentative poke, touch, touch lightly, touch the hat, touch upon, touching, uncover, wave, whisper

Etymology of Kiss
From cyssan:, from  *kussja-, cognates include Danish kysse:, Dutch kussen:, German küssen:, Icelandic kyssa: and Swedish kyssa:. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ku- or *kus- (probably imitative), with cognates including Ancient Greek κύσσω (kysso) poet. form of κύσω (kyso) "to kiss", and Hittite kuwassanzi "they kiss".

Homer, Odyssey, 16.15: kusse de min kephalen... "he kissed his forehead"; Aristophanes, Clouds, 56.81: kuson me... "kiss me...", etc., from κυνέω (kyneo) "to kiss".

Derived terms of Kiss

 * ass kissing
 * blow a kiss
 * French kiss
 * good night kiss
 * kiss and make up
 * kiss ass; kiss-ass


 * kiss chase
 * kisser
 * kiss my ass/kiss my arse
 * kiss of death
 * kiss off
 * kiss of life


 * kissogram
 * kiss the gunner's daughter
 * kiss-up
 * kiss up
 * soul kiss
 * tongue kiss

Verb

 * Albanian: puth
 * Arabic:, باس
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: pot, pa
 * Belarusian: цалаваць, пацалаваць
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: целувам
 * Catalan: besar, petonejar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , , 接吻, 親嘴, 亲嘴
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: suudlus, suudlema
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:, suukottaa, pussata
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,  δίνω φιλί
 * Ancient: ,
 * Guaraní: etũ (h-)
 * Hebrew: נישק, נתן נשיקה
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: basiar
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: キスする,, 接吻する, チューする
 * Korean: 입맞추다,
 * Kuna: wagar ue
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: maç kirin, ramûsandin
 * Sorani:


 * Latin:, osculor, suavor
 * Latvian: skūpstīt, bučot
 * Lithuanian: bučiuoti
 * Logudorese Sardinian: basu
 * Lojban:
 * Luxembourgish: kussen, këssen, eng Bees ginn
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: mencium
 * Malayalam: ചുംബിയ്ക്കുക (chumbiykkuka), ഉമ്മ വക്കുക
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: cyssan
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:,  ,   (of two people, each other)
 * Scottish Gaelic: pòg
 * Serbo-Croatian: љубити, пољубити, ljubiti, poljubiti, целивати, поцеливати, celivati, pocelivati
 * Slovak:, pobozkať
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: kyssa (passionately), pussa (lightly)
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: ముద్దాడు (muddaaDu), చుంబించు (chumbinchu)
 * Thai:, การจูบ
 * Tupinambá: îurupyter
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: цілувати, поцілувати
 * Urdu:, چمبان کرنا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: kidön
 * Welsh: cusanu
 * West Frisian:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ακροφιλώ (akrofiló)


 * Indonesian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: касаться
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian:, պաչպչվել
 * Belarusian: цалавацца
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , , 接吻, 親嘴, 亲嘴
 * Dutch: elkaar kussen, elkaar zoenen
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French: s'embrasser
 * German: sich küssen
 * Greek: φιλώ (filó), ασπάζομαι (aspazome)
 * Guaraní: ñehetũ
 * Hebrew: התנשק
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: basiar se
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Latin: basiari
 * Latvian: skūpstīties, bučoties


 * Lithuanian: bučiuotis
 * Luxembourgish: sech kussen, sech këssen
 * Macedonian: се бакнува, се бацува
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (busidan),  (lab gereftan)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: beijar-se
 * Romanian: se săruta
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: љубити се, пољубити се, ljubiti se, poljubiti se
 * Slovene: poljubljati se
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: kyssa, pussa (both reciprocal forms)
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: ముద్దాడు (muddaaDu), చుంబించు (chumbinchu)
 * Tupinambá: îoîurupyter
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: цілуватися

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, بوسة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: baş
 * Catalan: petó, bes, besada
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , , 接吻, 親嘴, 亲嘴
 * Cornish:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: suudlus
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , bécot, ,
 * German:, Busserl
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φίλημα
 * Modern: φιλί, ασπασμός
 * Guaraní: etũ (h-), ñehetũ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: basio
 * Irish:
 * Isthmus Zapotec: bixiduʼ
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 接吻, 口付け, チュー
 * Korean: ,


 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: maç, ramûsan, paç, bûse
 * Sorani:
 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian: skūpsts, buča
 * Lithuanian: bučinys, bučkis
 * Luxembourgish: Kuss, Bees
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ഉമ്മ (umma), ചുംബനം (chumbanam)
 * Manx:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rohingya: cum
 * Romani: chumi
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: пољубац/poljubac
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tamil: முத்தம்
 * Telugu: ముద్దు (muddu), చుంబనం (chumbanam)
 * Thai: การจูบ,
 * Tupinambá: îurupytera, îoîurupytera
 * Turkish: öpücük
 * Urdu: چمبان
 * Vietnamese: cái hôn
 * Volapük: kid
 * Welsh: cusan
 * West Frisian: tút


 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian: pikekyss


 * Russian: безе

Anagrams of Kiss

 * skis

Noun
kiss


 * 1) pee, wee, tinkle, urine