kiss

Nghĩa

Verb

1. To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
2. To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
3. Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
4. To treat with fondness.

Noun

1. A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
2. An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message, signifying the bestowal of a kiss from the sender to the receiver.
3. A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
4. The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth; conjunction.
5. A low-speed mid-air collision between the envelopes of two hot air balloons, generally causing no damage or injury.

Phát âm là (IPA)

/kɪs/

Từ nguyên

From Middle English kissen, kussen, from Old English cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-West Germanic *kussijan, from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną (“to kiss”).
Cognates include Saterland Frisian küsje, Dutch kussen, German Low German küssen, German küssen, Danish kysse, Swedish kyssa, Norwegian kysse, Icelandic kyssa. Compare Proto-Indo-European *ku-, *kus- (probably imitative), with byspels including Ancient Greek κύσσω (kússō), poetic form of κύσω (kúsō, “to kiss”), and Hittite [script needed] (kuwassanzi, “they kiss”).

Câu

Before you meet the handsome prince you have to kiss a lot of toads .

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