Thesaurus:kiss
English
Noun
Sense: kiss; touching with the lips
Synonyms
- buss [⇒ thesaurus]
- kiss
- lip clap (obsolete)
- osculation
- smooch
- sugar
- Yankee dime (US, idiomatic, slang)
Hyponyms
- butterfly kiss
- French kiss
- liplock (chiefly US)
- peck
- smack
- smacker
- smackeroo
- snog (UK)
- soul kiss
- tongue kiss
Hypernyms
Various
- 💏
- 💋
- first base (US, colloquial)
- Eskimo kiss
- kissing booth
- mwah
- SWAK
- SWALK
- —
- kissathon
- kissfest
- smoochfest
- snogfest
- —
- kiss chase
- spin the bottle
Verb
Sense: to kiss; to touch with the lips
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- air kiss
- blow a kiss
- French kiss
- get off with (UK)
- get to first base (US)
- make out (chiefly US)
- meet
- mwah-mwah
- neck (chiefly US)
- tongue
- tongue kiss
Holonyms
Coordinate terms
Further reading
- “902. endearment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “kiss” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.