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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?s, IPA^(key): /k?s/, [k??s]
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English kissen, kussen, from Old English cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-Germanic *kussijan? (“to kiss”), cognates include Danish kysse, Dutch kussen, German küssen, Icelandic kyssa,Norwegian kysseand Swedish kyssa. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ku, *kus (probably imitative), with cognates including Ancient Greek ????? (kúss?), poetic form of ???? (kús?, “to kiss”), and Hittite [script needed] (kuwassanzi, “they kiss”).

Verb

kiss (third-person singular simple present kisses, present participle kissing, simple past and past participle kissed)

1. (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2

     I'll kiss thy foot. I'll swear myself thy subject.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
   • 1870, Alfred Tennyson, The Window

     Rose, rose and clematis, / Trail and twine and clasp and kiss.
3. (intransitive) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
4. (transitive, archaic) To treat with fondness.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:kiss

Derived terms

• bekiss
• kissing
• kissle
• kissy

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English kis, kys, kus, forms of cos influenced by kissen, from Old English coss, from Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

Noun

kiss (plural kisses)

1. A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
2. An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message.
3. A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
4. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth, conjunction.

Synonyms

• (touch with the lips): See Thesaurus:buss

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• x
• xo
• xoxo
• xoxoxo
• xxx

Anagrams

• KSIs, Sisk, skis

Middle English

Verb

kiss

1. Alternative form of kissen

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s/

Etymology

Partly imitative, partly an euphemism for piss (see pissa (“to pee”)).

Noun

kiss n (uncountable)

1. pee, wee, tinkle, urine

Declension

Anagrams

• siks

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English naked, from Old English nacod, from Proto-West Germanic *nak(k)wad, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *neg?- (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne?k?d/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /?n?k?d/

Adjective

naked (comparative more naked, superlative most naked)

1. Bare, not covered by clothing.

   She was as naked as the day she was born.

2. (obsolete) Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
   • 1680, James Gordon, History of Scots Affairs:

     For no body would staye to give them intelligence, the countrey people running evry wher out of ther waye, and some of them flying out of ther bedds nacked in their shirts, who runne to the neerest rockes on the sea syde; so formidable was ther very name.

3. Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.

   This is the naked truth.

   The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.
4. Characterized by the nakedness of the people concerned or to whom the described noun is attributed.
   • 1666, Samuel Pepys, Diary:

     So here I went the first time into a naked bed, only my drawers on; and did sleep pretty well: but still both sleeping and waking had a fear of fire in my heart, that I took little rest.

   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:

     The satirical historian has not blushed to describe the naked scenes which Theodora was not ashamed to exhibit in the theatre.

5. (obsolete) Unarmed.
   • 1727, Daniel Defoe, An essay on the history and reality of apparitions:

     You an’t even with me yet, ?ays ?he; I ?corn as much to take up a Sword again?t a Naked Man; as you ought to have ?corn’d, if you had been a Gentleman, to give the Lie to a Woman.

6. Unaided, unaccompanied.
   • 1579, William Wilkinson, A confutation of certaine articles deliuered vnto the Familye of Loue:

     Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies.

   • 2001, Asger Aaboe, Episodes From the Early History of Astronomy:

     If all celestial bodies visible to the naked eye are thus mapped on the celestial sphere, it becomes apparent that the vast majority of them remain in fixed patterns with respect to each other: They form recognizable constellations that, in turn, remain unchangeably distributed.

7. Unprotected, uncovered; (by extension) without a condom.

   The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.

   I entered her naked and came in her too.

8. (finance, of a derivative contract) Where the writer (seller) does not own the underlying asset to cover the contract.

   a naked put, a naked call

   Synonym: uncovered

9. (literary) Resourceless, poor, lacking means.
   • 1480, anonymous, printed by William Caxton, Cura Sapientiæ; or, The Court of Sapience:

     I knowe my self moost naked in al artes, / My comune ne vulgare eke moost interupte, / And I conversaunte and born in the partes / Where my natyfe langage is moost corrupt, / And with most sundry tonges myxt and rupte.

   • c. 1625, John Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant:

     I am a poor Man, naked, / Yet ?omething for Remembrance; four a piece, Gentlemen, / And ?o my Body where you plea?e.

10. (with “of”) Lacking or devoid of something.
    • 1581, Walter Haddon and John Foxe, trans. James Bell, Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall and Against His Slaunderous Inuectiues: An Aunswere Apologeticall: for the Necessary Defence of the Euangelicall Doctrine and Veritie:

      Freewill is made naked of all maner merite.

    • 1619, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrim: Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man, relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his Degeneration, Necessity of His Regeneration:

      Their eyes were opened to ?ee their nakedne??e: naked they were of diuine protection and fauor, naked of Angelicall guard and cu?todie, naked of Humane puritie and holine??e, naked of dutifull subiection from the rebelling Creatures;

    • 1969, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist:

      I have spent about three weeks at home since Dec 1. As always, I am naked of good article ideas—despite my constant involvement with good subjects.

11. (obsolete) Blank, clean, empty.
    • c. 1660, Robert South, Sermon on John vii. 17.:

      For in the first it finds the mind naked and unprepossessed with any former notions, and so easily and insensibly gains upon the assent, grows up with it, and incorporates into it.

12. (of land, rocks, or plants) Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
13. Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.

    I feel naked without my mobile phone.

14. (of food or other consumer products) Without any additives, or without some component that would usually be included.

    a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla); a naked burger (without a bun)

    Naked Bacon (a brand without nitrates or phosphates)

15. (physics) Of a singularity, not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.

Synonyms

• bare, bareskin, nude, starkers, unclad, unclothed, butt-naked, bare-assed, in one's birthday suit, skyclad, showing skin
• See also Thesaurus:nude

• (without a condom): Thesaurus:condomless

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?kt/

Verb

naked

1. simple past tense and past participle of nake

Anagrams

• Danek, Kaden, knead

Middle English

Alternative forms

• nakid, nakyd, naaked, naket, nakit, nakede

Etymology

From Old English nacod, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz. Compare naken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?kid/

Adjective

naked

1. Uncovered; exposed, visible:
   1. Fully bodily uncovered; naked, clothesless or unclothed.
   2. Partially bodily uncovered or bald; uncovered in a specific area.
   3. Of a melee weapon; lacking a hilt or sheath; openly carried or readied.
   4. Of an wound; exposed; open, showing internals.
   5. Apparent, unveiled, obviously visible (in contrast to a previous state)
2. (often with a item specified) Having none of something; bare of a thing or quality:
   1. Having no armour or weapons; unequipped for battle.
   2. Unvegetated; lacking plant growth or ground cover.
   3. Bereft of possessions or accoutrements; without one's or its trappings.
3. Put in literal form; without decoration or accoutrements.
4. Referring to the core or substance of something.
5. (rare) Undiluted, unqualified, unconditional.
6. (rare) Restrained, unextended, bound.
7. (rare) Lacking feelings or sympathy.

Related terms

• nakedhed
• nakednesse
• nakidly

Descendants

• English: naked
• Scots: nakit

References

• “n?ked, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-21.

Noun

naked

1. An exposed part of the body.
2. (rare) The state of being naked.

References

• “n?ked, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-21.