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▪ I. kissing, vbl. n.|ˈkɪsɪŋ|
[f. kiss v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the verb kiss.
a1300Floriz & Bl. 513 Here kessinge ileste amile And þat hem þuȝte litel while. a1310in Wright Lyric P. xxv. 70 Thin heved doun boweth to suete cussinge. c1400Destr. Troy 2931 Acoyntyng hom with kissyng & clippyng in Armes. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 284 b, Goostly embracynges, clepynges, kyssynges. 1697Vanbrugh Relapse v. ii, Kissing goes by Favour; he likes you best. a1714Burnet Hist. Ref. (1820) III. 101 So many bowings, crossings, and kissings of the altar. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 82 Kissing in the East was a token of Divine honour, whether to an idol or to God.
b. Phr. (when) the kissing had (or has) to stop: (when) the ‘honeymoon’ period finished (or finishes); (when) one is forced to recognize harsh realities.
1855Browning Toccata of Galuppi's xiv, in Men & Women I. 61 What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? 1960R. L. C. Fitz Gibbon (title) When the kissing had to stop. 1965Guardian 20 Aug. 12/3 In the past 15 years more than 190,000 adult Jamaicans have come to settle in this country... Now the kissing has to stop. 1973Times 28 Dec. 8/3 If left wing extremists continue to exploit..grievances..we should not have to wait long for the emergence of extremists of the right... It is then a few short steps to the place where the kissing has to stop.
2. attrib. and Comb., as kissing scene, kissing-stuff; kissing-ball, -bough, -bunch, -bush, a Christmas wreath or ball of evergreens, freq. arranged with fruit and ribbons, which is hung from the ceiling and under which a kiss may be taken; † kissing cause (app.) = next; † kissing-comfit, a perfumed comfit for sweetening the breath; kissing dance = cushion-dance; kissing-gate, a small gate swinging in a U- or V-shaped enclosure, so as to allow only one person to pass at a time; † kissing-strings n. pl., a woman's bonnet- or cap-strings tied under the chin with the ends hanging loose; kissing time, the time to kiss, freq. used as a joc. reply to children who ask the time.
1970Canad. Antiques Collector Dec. 10/1 A *kissing ball, consisting of evergreen, wrapped round a cluster of apples, provides the ‘mistletoe’.
1956B. Chute Green Willow viii. 91 In some houses..*kissing-boughs hung over doorways. 1969E. Wilkins Rose-Garden Game viii. 191 The old English Christmas globe, called a kissing-bough, which was made up of three interlocking hoops of greenery, hung from the ceiling and lit up with candles.
1857T. Wright Dict. Obsolete & Provincial English II. 614/2 *Kissing-bunch, a bush of evergreens sometimes substituted for mistletoe at Christmas. 1913D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers vi. 116 It [sc. the kitchen] was small and curious to her, with its glittering kissing-bunch.
1859C. W. Wilson Mapping the Frontier (1970) i. 77 It will be a hard matter if we cannot get something wherewith to drink success to the ‘*kissing bush’. 1879–81G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-Bk. 237 Kissing-bush, a bunch of evergreens or mistletoe garnished with ribands and fruit, which is hung in the kitchen, or hall, at Christmas-tide.
1620Swetnam Arraigned (1880) 12 Their very breath Is sophisticated with Amber-pellets, and *kissing causes.
1598Shakes. Merry W. v. v. 22 Let it..haile *kissing-Comfits, and snow Eringoes. 1660R. May Accompl. Cook (1665) 271 To make Muskedines, called Rising Comfits or Kissing Comfits.
1899Daily News 14 Sept. 7/1 There was the famous *kissing dance, ‘Joan Saunderson’.
1875Parish Sussex Gloss., Cuckoo Gate,..called in Hampshire a *kissing-gate. 1886Elworthy W. Som. Word-bk., Kissing-gate..It is only made to open far enough for one person to pass at a time. 1896Westm. Gaz. 7 Nov. 7/1 The disappearance of the last of the kissing-gates on Parliament Hill.
a1735Arbuthnot John Bull iii. Misc. Wks. 1751 II. 89 The *kissing-Scene being at an end.
1705London Ladies Dressing-room (N.), Behind her back the streamers fly, And *kissing-strings hang dangling by. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlv, The old-fashioned terms of manteaus, sacques, kissing-strings, and so forth, would convey but little information even to the milliners of the present day.
1690Crowne Eng. Frier iii. 30 Fy Sir: you are a Priest, you have no *kissing-stuff about you.
1875W. Alexander Sk. Life among my Ain Folk v. ii. 245 When the leading fiddler pushes his fourth finger far up his first string..this is ‘*kissing time’; and, after an attempt more or less successful on the part of each male dancer to kiss his partner's cheek, at it they go! 1916F. Norton (song-title) Any time is kissing time. 1922Joyce Ulysses 354 Edy asked her the time and Miss Cissy..said it was half past kissing time, time to kiss again. 1935T. S. Eliot Murder in Cath. i. 25 If you will remember me, my Lord, at your prayers, I'll remember you at kissing-time below the stairs. 1947W. de la Mare Coll. Stories for Children 165 Nobody ever wasted any time (except kissing-time). 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xii. 247 It is kissing time after four o'clock. If the girls trip you up they say you have got to kiss them after four o'clock.
▪ II. kissing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
a. That kisses: see the verb.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 140 Thy lips, those kissing cherries. 1784Cowper Let. to J. Newton 29 Mar., A most loving, kissing, kind-hearted gentleman. 1864W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 132 In the wood we met just one kissing shower.
b. Comb. kissing bug U.S., a blood-sucking bug of the family Reduviidæ; kissing cousin, a relative or friend with whom one is on close enough terms to greet with a kiss; also transf.; kissing-crust (colloq.), the soft part of the crust of a loaf where it has touched another in baking; ‘also the under-crust in a pudding or pie’ (Farmer Slang); kissing gourami, a small Malaysian freshwater fish, Helostoma temmineki, often kept in aquaria; kissing kind a., kind or friendly enough to kiss, on affectionate terms; kissing trap slang, the mouth.
1899Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 33 Several persons suffering from swollen faces visited the Emergency Hospital in Washington and complained that they had been bitten by some insect while asleep... Thus began the ‘kissing bug’ scare. 1904N.Y. Even. Post 4 Aug. 1 The doctors were unable to decide whether he had been bitten by a mosquito or a kissing bug. 1932Metcalf & Flint Fund. Insect Life viii. 222 Family Reduviidæ. The Assassin or Kissing Bugs.—This is a very large family of mostly flattened, oval bugs... The assassin bugs catch small insects and suck their blood as food. Some species, when handled, inflict painful bites on man. 1973L. E. Chadwick tr. Linsenmaier's Insects of World 120/1 The bite of many reduviids is very painful, even to man; in warm countries certain species even enter homes on occasion at night and suck the blood of people. In North America this may be done by the black ‘kissing bug’ (Melanolestes picipes). About 0·6 inch long, this bug prefers to bite the face, especially in the region of the mouth. 1974A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xiii. 232 The cone-nose bug, or kissing bug, bites the lips of sleeping people, sucking blood and injecting an excruciating toxin.
1708W. King Cookery 191 (R.) These brought him kissing-crusts. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Praise Chimneysweepers, How he would recommend this slice of white bread, or that piece of kissing-crust. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg., Nell Cook, A mouldy piece of kissing-crust as from a Warden-pie.
1951in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 306/2 You guys talk like kissing cousins. 1961John o' London's 20 Apr. 436/3 Marianne Spottiswoode, who is also a kissing cousin of the publishing Spottiswoodes. 1961Economist 18 Nov. 676/2 The relationship will be more on the order of ‘kissing cousins’—the experience gained will be valuable for later and more serious efforts. 1970Guardian 31 Aug. 7/4 We resemble the Dutch more than we resemble the people of any other country—we are truly kissing cousins. 1973Publishers Weekly 25 June 33/2 (Advt.), From cream pies to their kissing cousins, souffles.
1935W. T. Innes Exotic Aquarium Fishes 360 Helostoma temmineki... Popular name, Kissing Gourami. 1952H. R. Axelrod Tropical Fish iii. 59 The Kissing Gourami [is]..so named for the unusual shape of its mouth when eating or sucking debris from the sides of the tank. 1962D. W. Tucker tr. Sterba's Freshwater Fishes of World 794 There is an unpigmented variety of the Kissing Gourami which is a uniform dull pink.
1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 153 Our friends..seemed more inclined to fraternize. Not that they were as yet kissing kind. 1886Pall Mall G. 16 Dec. 3/1 Russia and Germany are once more kissing kind.
1854‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Verdant Green iv. 31 To one gentleman he would pleasantly observe..in the still more elegant imagery of the Ring,..‘How about the kissing-trap?’ 1887G. D. Atkin House Scraps 54 The ‘off⁓side’ of his ‘kissing-trap’ Displays an ugly mark! 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §121/66 Mouth,..kissing trap, loud-speaker, maw, [etc.].
Hence ˈkissingly adv.
1836E. Howard R. Reefer xxxix, The breeze came so freshly and kissingly on my cheek. 1892Pall Mall Mag. 7 Sept., She pouted her lips kissingly. |