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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

  1. verb To touch someone with your lips as a sign of love, affection, or greeting.
  2. noun An act of touching with the lips, usually to show affection.
  3. noun A small chocolate candy shaped like a dome, as in Hershey's Kisses.

make out — full definition

  1. verb To kiss and embrace someone for a sustained period, in a romantic or passionate way.
  2. verb To manage to see, hear or read something that is faint or unclear.
  3. verb To claim or suggest that something is the case, usually unfairly or falsely.
  4. verb To write out a cheque, form or document, especially by filling in a name.

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