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kissing someone's ring

kissing someone's ring is the present participle and gerund of kiss someone's ring.

Meaning of kiss someone's ring

Verb

kiss someone's ring (third-person singular simple present kisses someone's ring, present participle kissing someone's ring, simple past and past participle kissed someone's ring)

  1. (idiomatic) To give respect or reverence to someone; to express servitude to someone.
    • The friendship had faltered during their first year at Oxford, when Barnaby had turned jester-in-chief to a pride of strutting young peacocks with titles and country estates. He had made them laugh and kissed their rings and they in return had sneered at him behind his back.2011, Mark Mills, chapter 9, in House of the Hanged, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN; House of the Hunted: A Novel, 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 2011, →ISBN, page 106

Questions about kissing someone's ring

What is kissing someone's ring the present participle and gerund of?
Kissing someone's ring is the present participle and gerund of kiss someone's ring.

Words near kissing someone's ring in the dictionary

  1. kissing out
  2. kissing someone on the dick
  3. kissing someone's arse
  4. kissing someone's ass
  5. kissing someone's hem
  6. kissing someone's ring
  7. kissing string
  8. kissing strings
  9. kissing the book
  10. kissing the dust
  11. kissing the gunner's daughter

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