Kisses

kiss  (ks)

v. kissed, kiss·ing, kiss·es

v.tr.

1. To touch or caress with the lips as an expression of affection, greeting, respect, or amorousness.

2. To touch lightly or gently: flowers that were kissed by dew.

3. To strike lightly; brush against: barely kissed the other car with the bumper.

v.intr.

1. To engage in mutual touching or caressing with the lips.

2. To come into light contact.

n.

1. A caress or touch with the lips.

2. A slight or gentle touch.

3. A small piece of candy, especially of chocolate.

4. A drop cookie made of egg whites and sugar.

Phrasal Verbs:

kiss off Slang

1. To dismiss or reject.

2. To be forced to give up or regard as lost: He can kiss off that promotion.

3. To leave or disappear from notice: got bad press by telling the reporters to kiss off.

kiss up Slang

To behave obsequiously; fawn.

Idioms:

kiss ass Vulgar Slang

To act submissively or obsequiously in order to gain favor.

kiss goodbye

Informal To be forced to regard as lost, ruined, or hopeless: She can kiss her vacation plans goodbye.

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[Middle English kissen, from Old English cyssan.]

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kissa·ble adj.

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Kisses 

See Also: INSULTS

1. Batted them [breast nipples] over and over with my tongue like gum —Joe Coomer
2. Being kissed … was something done to her, like the shampoos her mother used to give her at the kitchen sink —John Updike
3. He kissed her … his neck arching forward, hers backward, like a pair of swans —T. H. White
4. Her lips grazed mine, cool, soft, and tremulous as the wings of a moth —Robert Traver
5. His kiss dropped on her like a cold smooth pebble —Edith Wharton
6. His [kisser’s mouth] mouth was as soft as a flower and his breath as sweet —Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

   See Also: SOFTNESS

7. It [kissing someone] was like putting your mouth against an automatic bank teller, where it swallows your credit card —John Updike
8. Kissed (the children) with an official air, as if she were conferring an honor, pinning on her kisses like orders —Rebecca West
9. Kisses are like confidences, one follows the other —Denis Diderot
10. Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near —George Villiers
11. Kisses, like folks with diminutive souls, will manage to creep through the smallest of holes —J. G. Saxe
12. Kisses … sticky like a child’s —Flannery O’Connor
13. Kisses strong like wine —Algernon Charles Swinburne
14. Kiss … felt like a drop of rain in the desert —John Updike
15. Kissing a person who’s self-righteous and intolerant is like licking a mongoose’s ass —Tom Robbins
16. Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray —Tom Robbins
17. Kissing her lips was like kissing warm but uncooked liver —Stephen King
18. Kissing her … .was like playing post office with a dead and rotting whale —Truman Capote
19. Kissing him would be like kissing razor blades —David Brierly
20. Kissing is a good deal like eating; there is not much fun when person is hungry in standing by, and seeing it done by another fellow —Josh Billings

    Portions originally in the Billings phonetic dialect: “iz hungry … it did bi anuther fellow.”

21. A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt —Spanish proverb
22. Moved her head and face about under the kisses as if they were small attacking waves —Doris Lessing
23. One more such kiss and I am ready to be roasted upon a slow fire like any chicken or duckling —Delmore Schwartz
24. Pecks like chicken scratchings —Mary Morris
25. She dug her lips into my mouth like tiger’s claws —Jaroslav Seifert
26. She kissed me as moistly as a little girl —John Braine
27. She took kisses like so many coats of paint —Lawrence Durrell
28. They kissed like two old people going to bed after the clock has been wound and the cat put out —Derek Lambert
29. To kiss her would be like a Becket play to a college student: She would study it, dissect it, analyze it, appraise it and inject it with the serum of significance, until at last she transformed the simple touching of four lips into a Rosetta Stone that would give meaning to her life —Peter Benchley
30. When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate —Marge Piercy