steal a kiss

present singular third person steals a kiss · participle present stealing a kiss · past stole a kiss · participle past stolen a kiss

1. To kiss someone secretly or discreetly.

   She wanted to steal a kiss from me.

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   My ghostly fader, I me confesse, First to God and then to you, That at a window,—wot ye how?—

   c. 1415-1440 (date written), Charles, Duke of Orléans, reproduced by E. K. Chambers, Early English Lyrics: Amorous, Divine, Moral and Trivial (1907), p. 31

   To beare my Ladies traine, leſt the baſe earth / Should from her venture chance to ſteale a kiſſe, / And of ſo great a fauor growing proud,

   c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 26, column 2

   She accepted these terms, and slid off on the near side, though not till he had stolen a cursory kiss.

   1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC

   If I steal a kiss, dear, I'll surely return it someday / If I steal your dreams, dear, I'll bring them back some way

   1948, Nacio Herb Brown, Edward Heyman, “If I Steal A Kiss”, performed by Frank Sinatra