kissy-kissy

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kissy-kissy

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A reduplication of kissy.

adjective more kissy-kissy · most kissy-kissy

  1. informal Cloyingly intimate. 1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure One minute he's so glad to be with me, kissy-kissy, & the next minute he tells me right out he doesn't care if he's with me or not.

    Similar: lovey-dovey

noun

  1. informal, uncountable Kissing; kisses. We did a little kissy-kissy, I put on some music - American Beauty. More kissy-kissy, touchy-touchy, turn out the lights.....

verb kissy-kissies · kissy-kissying · kissy-kissied

  1. ambitransitive, informal, rare To kiss. >Especially since we're all kissy kissy right now. I don't notice anybody kissy-kissying me, but I'll settle for the fabulous package that came from Dreamland today! Thanks, morph, for your circular, musical tributes.

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@misc{kissy_kissy_2026,
  title = {kissy-kissy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kissy-kissy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}