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Today's Word "osculation"

The act of kissing on

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osculation \os-kyuh-LAY-shuhn\ (noun) - The act of kissing; also: a kiss.

"If by osculation you mean kissing, Miss Cobb... I guess you don't remember the Austrian count who was a head waiter here. If there was anything in the way of osculation that that member of an old Austrian family didn't know I've got to find it out. He could kiss all around any American I ever saw!" -- Mary Roberts Rinehart, 'Where There's a Will'

 

Osculation comes from osculatio, "a kissing," from osculari, "to kiss," from osculum, "a little mouth, a kiss," diminutive of os, "mouth."


 

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