Definitions for kisses

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kisses kiss

Spelling: [kis]

IPA: /kɪs/

Kisses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in kisses (eiksss).

Definitions for kisses

noun

1. an act or instance of kissing.
2. a slight touch or contact.
3. Billiards, Pool. the slight touch of one ball by another.
4. a baked confection of egg whites and confectioners' sugar, served as a cookie.
5. a piece of toffeelike confectionery, sometimes containing nuts, coconut, or the like.
6. a small, sometimes conical, bite-size piece of chocolate, usually individually wrapped.

Idioms

1. blow / throw a kiss, to indicate an intended kiss from a distance, usually in bidding farewell, by kissing one's own fingertips and moving the hand toward the person greeted.
2. kiss ass, Slang: Vulgar. to be obsequious; fawn.

Verb phrases

1. kiss off, Slang. to reject, dismiss, or ignore: (used to express contemptuous rejection or dismissal). to give up, renounce, or dispense with:

verb (used with object)

1. to touch or press with the lips slightly pursed, and then often to part them and to emit a smacking sound, in an expression of affection, love, greeting, reverence, etc.:
2. to join lips with in this way:
3. to touch gently or lightly:
4. to put, bring, take, etc., by, or as if by, kissing:
5. Billiards, Pool. (of a ball) to make slight contact with or brush (another ball).

verb (used without object)

1. to join lips in respect, affection, love, passion, etc.:
2. to express a thought, feeling, etc., by a contact of the lips:
3. to purse and then part the lips, emitting a smacking sound, as in kissing someone.
4. Billiards, Pool. (of a ball) to carom gently off or touch another ball.

Origin of kisses

before 900; Middle English kissen to kiss, Old English cyssan (cognate with German küssen, Old Norse kyssa), derivative of Old English coss a kiss; cognate with Old Norse koss, German Küss

Examples for kisses

The washing, touching, and kissing of these bodies—typical in many West African burials—can be deadly.

Taylor Swift saw Selena Gomez kissing Bieber backstage at an awards show, and made a very obvious “yuck” face.

Now there was a fine jubilee, and a hugging and kissing over and over.

Dead bodies were to be covered in bleach, and typical burial rites of kissing and touching ignored.

"Why, you talk as if there had been a fire," I cried, kissing her.

Cranston said he actually was that character—“We actually had a kissing scene together!”

He thought that it was very strange that he should think so ardently of kissing Maggie.

When, in crossing the Clos-Marie, he lifted his head, he saw that she was kissing the flowers.

Many times Hubertine had seen her kissing her hands with vehemence.

“Simple joys of life—hugging, kissing, coloring—they have been taken away,” she says.