cheek kissn.
/ˈtʃiːk ˌkɪs/, U.S. /ˈtʃik ˌkɪs/ A kiss on the cheek, used as a gesture of greeting or of friendly or familial affection; an air kiss (air kiss n.) where the cheeks touch.
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1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 557/1 A face-averting from the cheek-kiss of friendship mildly imitative of love.
1908 W. Trafford-Taunton Threshold i. 123 He held his tongue and went to the funeral of her little child with cousinly consolation, a cousinly hand-shake, and a cousinly cheek kiss.
1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 24 Accepting a goodbye, cheek kiss from the pretty, purple-coated girl from publicity.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 June (Business section) 1/1 She walks into Fig & Olive, an airy Manhattan restaurant, and exchanges cheek kisses with..producers and cameramen.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1833- to drink a tirelarigot
- to drink all out
- to drink and drive
- to drink away one's property
- to drink away one's reason
- to drink cap-out
- to drink capout
- to drink damnation
- to drink dead drunk
- to drink deep
- to drink down
- to drink drunk
- to drink dry
- to drink eat candle-ends
- to drink eat candleends
- to drink good luck
- to drink hail
- to carry meat in one's mouth
- to carry meat in one'the mouth
- to carry off
- to carry off her feet
- to carry off his feet
- to carry offal to a bear
- to carry on
- to carry on all top ropes