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butterfly kiss

butterfly kiss noun: fluttering one's eyelashes against someone's skin.

Noun

butterfly kiss (plural butterfly kisses)

  1. Fluttering one's eyelashes against someone's skin.
    • She worked her eyelashes and made butterfly kisses on my cheeks.1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
    • One of these was the butterfly kiss, given by fluttering the eyelashes against the skin of the recipient.2003, Jennifer J. Rombalski, A Personal Journey in Understanding Physical Touch as a Nursing Intervention, Journal of Holistic Nursing, March 2003, vol. 21, no. 1, (page 80)
  2. A very light kiss.
    • Alexandros kisses her goodbye, a butterfly kiss on the lips, Aloé kisses her the same way. Beautiful child, Ethel thinks. Goodbye, Alexandros.2005, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Turing: A Novel about Computation, page 6
    • Then he felt a butterfly kiss settle upon his cheek.2009, Ivey Nance, There's Trouble Brewing, page 5

Forms of butterfly kiss

pluralbutterfly kisses

Questions about butterfly kiss

What does butterfly kiss mean?
Butterfly kiss means fluttering one's eyelashes against someone's skin.
What part of speech is butterfly kiss?
Butterfly kiss is a noun.
What is the plural of butterfly kiss?
The plural of butterfly kiss is butterfly kisses.

Words near butterfly kiss in the dictionary

  1. butterfly ginger
  2. butterfly keyboard
  3. butterfly keyboards
  4. butterfly kick
  5. butterfly kicks
  6. butterfly kiss
  7. butterfly kisses
  8. butterfly knife
  9. butterfly knives
  10. butterfly knot
  11. butterfly knots

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