knutschen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- kiss verb To touch someone with your lips as a sign of love, affection, or greeting.
- make out verb To kiss and embrace someone for a sustained period, in a romantic or passionate way.
- neck noun The part of the body connecting the head to the shoulders and trunk.
- smooch noun (informal) A kiss.
- snog verb To kiss someone passionately.
Senses
knutschen is used for these senses in English:
- French kiss (ambitransitive) To give a French kiss, in its various senses.
- kiss (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
- make out (slang, chiefly, US, intransitive) To embrace and kiss passionately. [from 20th c.]
- neck (transitive, slang) To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
- neck (transitive, slang) To drink or swallow rapidly.
- smooch (informal, ambitransitive) To kiss.
- snog (UK, Irish, Commonwealth, colloquial) To kiss passionately.
kiss — full definition
- verb To touch someone with your lips as a sign of love, affection, or greeting.
- noun An act of touching with the lips, usually to show affection.
- noun A small chocolate candy shaped like a dome, as in Hershey's Kisses.
make out — full definition
- verb To kiss and embrace someone for a sustained period, in a romantic or passionate way.
- verb To manage to see, hear or read something that is faint or unclear.
- verb To claim or suggest that something is the case, usually unfairly or falsely.
- verb To write out a cheque, form or document, especially by filling in a name.