kissing kin

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English

Noun

Template:en-plural noun

  1. kissing cousins (literally or figuratively)
    • 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 []