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fare l'amore — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • flirt verb To behave in a playful, teasing way toward someone to show romantic or sexual interest.
  • fornicate verb To have sexual intercourse, especially outside marriage.
  • love verb To feel deep affection or care for someone or something.
  • mate noun A friend or companion, especially of the same sex.
  • 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

fare l'amore is used for these senses in English:

  • flirt (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. [from 18th c.]
  • fornicate (intransitive) To engage in fornication.
  • have sex To engage in any sexual act.
  • love (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
  • make love (euphemistic) To engage in sexual intercourse. [from 1950s]
  • mate (intransitive) To copulate.
  • neck (transitive, slang) To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
  • smooch (informal, ambitransitive) To kiss.

flirt — full definition

  1. verb To behave in a playful, teasing way toward someone to show romantic or sexual interest.
  2. verb To show a passing, casual interest in an idea or activity, without full commitment.
  3. noun A person who flirts often.

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