KISS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kiss mean? 

• KISS (noun)
  The noun KISS has 4 senses:

1. the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)

2. a cookie made of egg whites and sugar

3. any of several bite-sized candies

4. a light glancing touch

  Familiarity information: KISS used as a noun is uncommon.

• KISS (verb)
  The verb KISS has 2 senses:

1. touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.

2. touch lightly or gently

  Familiarity information: KISS used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KISS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

buss; kiss; osculation

Hypernyms ("kiss" is a kind of...):

touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kiss"):

smack; smooch (an enthusiastic kiss)

deep kiss; French kiss; soul kiss (an openmouthed kiss in which your tongue is inserted into the other's mouth)

Derivation:

kiss (touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cookie made of egg whites and sugar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("kiss" is a kind of...):

biscuit; cookie; cooky (any of various small flat sweet cakes ('biscuit' is the British term))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of several bite-sized candies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

candy kiss; kiss

Hypernyms ("kiss" is a kind of...):

candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kiss"):

molasses kiss (a candy kiss that resembles toffee)

meringue kiss (a kiss made of sugar and egg white and baked slowly)

chocolate kiss (a kiss that consists of a conical bite-sized piece of chocolate)

Scotch kiss (butterscotch candy kiss)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A light glancing touch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

there was a brief kiss of their hands in passing

Hypernyms ("kiss" is a kind of...):

touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)

Derivation:

kiss (touch lightly or gently)

• KISS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they kiss    ... he / she / it kisses   
Past simple: kissed   
Past participle: kissed   
-ing form: kissing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

buss; kiss; osculate; snog

Context example:

She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room

Hypernyms (to "kiss" is one way to...):

touch (make physical contact with, come in contact with)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "kiss"):

peck; smack (kiss lightly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

Sam cannot kiss Sue

Derivation:

kiss (the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof))

kisser (someone who kisses)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Touch lightly or gently

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

the blossoms were kissed by the soft rain

Hypernyms (to "kiss" is one way to...):

touch (make physical contact with, come in contact with)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

kiss (a light glancing touch)

 Context examples 

"No, I cannot do that," she replied, "but I will give you my kiss, and no one will dare injure a person who has been kissed by the Witch of the North."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

All the planets in your sixth house of work projects will be sending kisses to the Sun in your financial eighth house and to the full moon March 9 in your financial second house.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But that lady, kissing me, and making me put them back in my pocket, replied that she couldn't think of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Elizabeth jumped out; and, after giving each of them a hasty kiss, hurried into the vestibule, where Jane, who came running down from her mother's apartment, immediately met her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And, my dear, when he kissed me, and drew me to him with his poor weak hands, it was like a very solemn pledge between us....

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She looked so beautiful that he could not take his eyes off her, so he stooped down and gave her a kiss.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I wish my favorite playmate Kitty Bryant to have the blue silk apron and my gold-bead ring with a kiss.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

God's own mad lover should do anything for the kiss, but not for thirty thousand dollars a year.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Phelps seized his hand and kissed it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)