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limonare — 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.
  • 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

limonare is used for these senses in English:

  • French kiss (ambitransitive) To give a French kiss, in its various senses.
  • flirt (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. [from 18th c.]
  • neck (transitive, slang) To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
  • smooch (informal, ambitransitive) To kiss.
  • snog (UK, Irish, Commonwealth, colloquial) To kiss passionately.

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.

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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