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kissying up

kissying up is the present participle and gerund of kissy up.

Meaning of kissy up

Verb

kissy up (third-person singular simple present kissies up, present participle kissying up, simple past and past participle kissied up)

  1. (informal, intransitive, rare) Synonym of kiss up.
    • When you leave, can you take the Nation of Islam slimeballs with you? They love to kissy up to their Arab masters.1996 April 19, Geoff Cooper, “Arabs must leave the United Nations”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026
    Synonyms:
    kiss up

Questions about kissying up

What is kissying up the present participle and gerund of?
Kissying up is the present participle and gerund of kissy up.

Words near kissying up in the dictionary

  1. kissy-kissied
  2. kissy-kissies
  3. kissy-kissy
  4. kissy-kissying
  5. kissybug
  6. kissying up
  7. Kissé
  8. kist
  9. kistbandi
  10. kisted
  11. Kister

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kissying up (page history and authors); kissy up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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