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Frenching

Frenching

1 8.4
To kiss someone with your tongue
  • noun
  • /frɛnʧɪŋ/
  • NSFW
translation icon : beso francés
  • As he walks her up the stairs, they stop once again for some frantic Frenching.

You kiss a French kiss a French person dead.

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Examples

  • During the movie, they couldn't help Frenching in the back row.

  • They shared a romantic moment, Frenching under the stars.

  • "First is still Frenching, right?" my mom said to me.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Well, it's interesting you bring up French kissing because we're going to get into this episode.

  • That's what I want to see, you know, just a little French kiss in France.

  • I mean, it's, it's one of the funniest, like most perfect sort of French kiss moments in time.

  • After a lovely dinner, they ended the night with some passionate Frenching.

Synonyms

kiss
vsFrenching
752 1.0

A touch of lips on someone to show love, greeting, or respect

is the specific open mouth tongue action rather than only lip contact
kissing
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  • NSFW
100 1.0

Touching someone's lips to show love or say hello

is the narrower open mouth tongue action, not just lip contact
French kiss
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  • NSFW
6 3.3

A kiss where one person puts their tongue into the other's mouth

is the more common or casual name for this same tongue kiss
necking
vsFrenching
  • NSFW
1 8.2

Kissing and gentle touching in a romantic way without touching private parts

is the specific open mouth tongue action rather than general caressing
snogging
vsFrenching
  • NSFW
1 9.4

Kissing and cuddling in a romantic way

is the standard term focusing on the tongue kiss rather than cuddling
soul kiss
vsFrenching
  • NSFW
1 7.8

An open-mouthed touch of lips and tongue to show strong feeling

is an alternate emotional label rather than a different action
tonguing
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  • NSFW
8.5

Kissing someone using the tongue in a passionate way

is the neutral name for the same tongue kiss without sexual emphasis
osculation
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  • Literature
9.9

A kiss made with the lips to show affection

is about using the tongue rather than lip only contact

How Affectionate

to make out
  • NSFW
130 8.1
Frenching
  • NSFW
1 8.4
smooching
  • Informal
4 7.0
kissing
  • NSFW
100 1.0
to peck
4 2.0

Surface Forms

Frenching singular
Frenchings plural

Morphology

Frenching = French (opaque) = French + ing

This is a regular -ing nominalization of the verb 'French', but the kissing sense is specialized and not predictable from the ordinary adjective/noun 'French'.

Etymology

Frenching comes from the phrase French kiss, because people linked this type of kiss, which uses the tongue, to France and its romantic image. So Frenching simply means 'kissing with tongues'.