Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of make love
Two, however, of the passengers in the vessel were very agreeably employed—they were making love. By-the-by, what an ugly phrase "making love" is—as if love were a dress or a pudding.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 269
Synonyms & antonyms
nounsexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
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