kiss
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4.4
- noun
- /kɪs/
:
bombón
- OK, now we have Hershey's Kisses cereal.
- chocolate kiss
- Hershey's Kiss
- cookie kiss
I'm just using easy Hershey Kisses and white chocolate melts.
- I'm just using easy Hershey Kisses and white chocolate melts.
Examples
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With two fingers, she crunches a Hershey's Kiss-shaped cone of cranberry oil paint on the carpet.
Fiction book (1995) -
New Hosties is fortified with vitamins and minerals, topped off with an angelic kiss of frosting that stays crispy in milk!
Fiction book (1999) -
A kiss and a chocolate for a price.
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Put our little chocolate kiss lips on today.
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Well, we didn't get the whole chocolate bar, but we got a Hershey's Kiss.
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I received a small bag filled with delicious chocolate kisses as a gift.
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The bakery sells a variety of colorful meringue kisses on special occasions.
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At the party, everyone enjoyed the sweet chocolate kisses placed on the dessert table.
Synonyms
774
1.0
A small flat sweet baked treat often with chocolate chips or nuts
398
1.0
Something special and enjoyable like ice cream or a nice outing
69
1.0
A small sugary food eaten after a meal
24
1.0
A hard sweet on a small stick that you lick or suck
9
1.1
A flat sweet cookie made from simple dough often decorated with icing or sugar
8
3.7
Sweet food like candy or a small cake
6
6.4
A sweet treat on a stick like a lollipop or an ice pop
3
8.8
A small sweet food like candy or fruit covered in sugar eaten as a treat
1
2.6
A small cone of chocolate wrapped in shiny foil
1
1.0
A small sweet made with chocolate and eaten as a treat
A small wrapped piece of chocolate you eat in one bite
A small sweet made from whipped egg whites and sugar, baked until crisp
A small piece of candy or chocolate
A small chewy sweet made from thick dark sugar syrup, often wrapped
A small butterscotch candy shaped like a kiss with a soft marshmallow center
Idioms
- Offensive
49
9.9
To tell someone rudely that you do not care about their opinion or order
Compounds
- Jargon
1
9.4
An area at competitions like figure skating where athletes and coaches wait for scores and show emotion
A garden plant with broad leaves and long hanging red flower spikes
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the word kiss for a small sweet is to think of the tiny, quick peck of a kiss; little chocolates or meringues called a 'kiss' are like a small, sweet 'peck' of flavour.