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ricochet
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French ricochet.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???k??e?/, /???k???t/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Hyphenation: ric?o?chet
Noun
ricochet (plural ricochets)
- (military) A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
- An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
Translations
Verb
ricochet (third-person singular simple present ricochets, present participle ricocheting or ricochetting, simple past and past participle ricocheted or ricochetted)
- To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
- 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, "Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):
- Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way.
- 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, "Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):
- (military) To operate upon by ricochet firing.
Translations
French
Etymology
Origin uncertain.
- The word first appears in the phrases chanson du/de riochet, fable du ricochet. This is apparently related to other story-titles such as the fable du rouge kokelet; other dialectal terms such as ripoton (“duckling”) and Norman recoquet (“chick”) has led to theories that the word originally indicated a "young cock". The sense-development is unclear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i.k?.??/
Noun
ricochet m (plural ricochets)
- rebound; ricochet.
- the game of ducks and drakes.
Further reading
- “ricochet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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kiss
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)
- (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.
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 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.
- 1870, Alfred Tennyson, The Window
- (intransitive) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
- (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)
- A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
- An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message.
- A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
- (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
- 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)
- pee, wee, tinkle, urine
Declension
Anagrams
- siks
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