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kissing comfit

kissing comfit noun: a perfumed sugar-plum previously used to sweeten the breath.

Noun

kissing comfit (plural kissing comfits)

  1. (obsolete) A perfumed sugar-plum previously used to sweeten the breath.
    • let it thunder to the tune of Green Sleeves; hail kissing-comfits, and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me herec. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of kissing comfit

pluralkissing comfits

Questions about kissing comfit

What does kissing comfit mean?
Kissing comfit means a perfumed sugar-plum previously used to sweeten the breath.
What part of speech is kissing comfit?
Kissing comfit is a noun.
What is the plural of kissing comfit?
The plural of kissing comfit is kissing comfits.

Words near kissing comfit in the dictionary

  1. kissing booth
  2. kissing booths
  3. kissing bridge
  4. kissing bug
  5. kissing bugs
  6. kissing comfit
  7. kissing comfits
  8. kissing cousin
  9. kissing cousins
  10. kissing dance
  11. kissing dances

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