Meanings
- literarynot comparablerareBy means of the mouth.
Baby drained the bottle and now was oscularly embracing the mint-stick.
1854 November, Polykomp O’Rourke [pseudonym], “The Pioneer. Written on Compulsion.”, in The Nassau Literary Magazine, volume XV, number 3, Princeton, N.J.: Senior Class of the College of New Jersey, →OCLC, page 892 more examples
She kisses Aubrey ecstatically, declaring him oscularly unmistakable, to the discomfiture of Louise.
1932 December 7, Eric, “‘Tons of Money’ (Daly’s)”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CLXXXIII, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 639, column 3But her gentleman friends have already intimated what sort of drama is coming: the odd old one obscurely, the strange familiar one oscularly. The Wide, Wide World, their foreplay foretells, will revolve around com-muting her incestuous passion; and commuting it will be a matter of soliciting and refusing a daughterly kiss—forever and ever.
1992, G[eoffrey] M[ichael] Goshgarian, “His Sister’s Keeper: Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World”, in To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 93
Origin
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