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kissing kin

noun

Kissing cousins.

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Meanings

nounkissing kin pl (plural only)

pluralplural onlyliteral or figurativeKissing 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 […]
1978, Maurice Charney, Comedy: New Perspectives, page 56

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna more or less distant relative; familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss

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Broader

relative relation

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Origin

From kissing + kin.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with kissing kin

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APA

kissing kin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kissing%20kin

MLA

“kissing kin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kissing%20kin. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kissing kin,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kissing%20kin.

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