kissing kin

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

kissing +‎ kin

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

kissing kin pl (plural only)

  1. (literal or figurative) Kissing cousins.
    • 1978, Maurice Charney, Comedy: New Perspectives, page 56:
      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 […]
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