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kissing kin

noun

Etymology

From kissing + kin.

  1. inherited from *kunją✻
  2. inherited from *kuni✻
  3. inherited from cynn
  4. inherited from kyn
  5. compounded as kissing kin — “kissing + kin”

Definitions

  1. Kissing cousins.

    • Pyrrhonic irony and humor are kissing kin in The Magic Mountain (1924), for example, where Mann, the Ironic German who preferred the title of humorist, deploys his extensive "equivocal" irony basically to reconcile the irreconcilable […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA