different between kipsy vs kissy

English

Etymology 1

From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) +? -y (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

kipsy (plural kipsies)

1. (Australia) A house or shelter.

Verb

kipsy (third-person singular simple present kipsies, present participle kipsying, simple past and past participle kipsied)

1. To board, to reside.
   • 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155,

     “ […] It?s some kind of boarding-house that she kipsies in—”

Alternative forms

• kipsie

References

Etymology 2

Noun

kipsy (plural kipsies)

1. (obsolete, slang) A basket.

Alternative forms

• kibsey

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary (as kypsey)

Anagrams

• pisky, spiky

English

Etymology

kiss +? -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?si

Adjective

kissy (comparative kissier, superlative kissiest)

1. Sentimentally affectionate.
2. (informal) Tending to kiss frequently.

   We sat behind an obnoxiously kissy couple in the cinema.

3. (informal) Suited to kissing; resembling or relating to kissing.

   kissy lips

Derived terms

• kissy-kissy

Translations

Noun

kissy (plural kissies)

1. Diminutive of kiss