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kissing kin

kissing kin noun: kissing cousins.

Noun

kissing kin pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, literal or figurative) Kissing cousins.
    • Pyrrhonic irony and humor are kissing kin in The Magic Mountain (1924), for example, where Mann, the Ironic German who preferred the title of humorist, deploys his extensive "equivocal" irony basically to reconcile the irreconcilable […]1978, Maurice Charney, Comedy: New Perspectives, page 56

Origin of kissing kin

From kissing + kin.

Words that rhyme with kissing kin

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Questions about kissing kin

What does kissing kin mean?
Kissing kin means kissing cousins.
What part of speech is kissing kin?
Kissing kin is a noun.

Words near kissing kin in the dictionary

  1. kissing goodbye
  2. kissing gourami
  3. kissing gouramies
  4. kissing gouramis
  5. kissing hands
  6. kissing kin
  7. kissing number
  8. kissing numbers
  9. kissing off
  10. kissing one's teeth
  11. kissing out

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