kiss
verb /kɪs/
/kɪs/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they kiss | /kɪs/ /kɪs/ |
| he / she / it kisses | /ˈkɪsɪz/ /ˈkɪsɪz/ |
| past simple kissed | /kɪst/ /kɪst/ |
| past participle kissed | /kɪst/ /kɪst/ |
| -ing form kissing | /ˈkɪsɪŋ/ /ˈkɪsɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to touch somebody with your lips as a sign of love or sexual desire or when saying hello or goodbye
- They stood in a doorway kissing (= kissing each other).
- Do people in Britain kiss when they meet?
- kiss somebody/something Go and kiss your mother goodnight.
- He bent forward to kiss her cheek.
- She kissed him on both cheeks.
- He lifted the trophy up and kissed it.
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsb1- He bent to kiss her again.
- He kissed her long and hard on the mouth.
- She let him kiss her lightly on the cheek.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gently
- lightly
- lovingly
- …
- bend to
- lean over to
- stoop to
- …
- on
- kiss and cuddle
- kiss somebody full on the lips
- kiss somebody full on the mouth
- …
- [transitive] kiss something (literary) to gently move or touch something
- The sunlight kissed the warm stones.
Word OriginOld English cyssan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kussen and German küssen.
Idioms
kiss and tell
- a way of referring to somebody talking publicly, usually for money, about a past sexual relationship with somebody famous
kiss somebody’s arse (British English)
(North American English kiss somebody’s ass, kiss ass)
- (taboo, slang) to be very nice to somebody in order to persuade them to help you or to give you something A more polite way to express this is lick somebody’s boots.
kiss something better
- (informal) to take away the pain of an injury by kissing it
- Come here and let me kiss it better.
kiss something goodbye | kiss goodbye to something
- (informal) to accept that you will lose something or be unable to do something
- Well, you can kiss goodbye to your chances of promotion.