osculate
verb/ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/UK/ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/US/ˈɒskjʊlət/UK/ˈɑskjələt/US
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ōsculātus, perfect active participle of ōsculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ōsculum (“a kiss”) + -or (verbal suffix), from ōs (“mouth”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). See also oscillate.
- borrowed from ōsculātus
Definitions
To kiss.
- And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.
To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
To make contact.
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To perform osculation.
To form a connecting link between two genera.
Relating to kissing.
The neighborhood
- neighborosculation
Derived
hyperosculate, inosculate, interosculate, osculating, osculator, osculatory
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