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Definition: KISSED |
KISSEDImperative & past participle1. Of Kiss |
Date "KISSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: KISSED |
| English words defined with "KISSED": as a formality ♦ buss ♦ gently ♦ kiss ♦ lightly ♦ osculate ♦ passionately, perfunctorily, pro forma ♦ softly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "KISSED": Duty ♦ I'sis ♦ Kaaba, Kiss given to a Poet, Kiss the Place to make it Well ♦ Lybius. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I kissed him. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) Oh God, I kissed Jim (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg) Michael was the most sexually experienced of us, which means he had kissed a girl on more than two occasions (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) You're the first boy I kissed, Jake, and I want you to be the last (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) Nobody ever kissed me the way you do. (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman) | |
Lyrics | And when I kissed her (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC) He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye (Ironic; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) The way it felt when romeo kissed juliette (I Can Love You Like That; performing artist: All-4-One) I kissed your lips (Last Night; performing artist: Az Yet) Kissed me and stopped me from shaking, (Mandy; performing artist: Barry Manilow) | |
Clever | The first time we kissed, I closed my eyes, You closed your eyes and... We missed! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | They All Kissed the Bride (1942) Kissed (1922) Who Kissed Me? (1921) A Sun Kissed Isle (1918) Who Kissed Her? (1915) | |
Song Titles | Then He Kissed Me (performing artist: The Crystals) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Seized the outstretched hand and kissed it passionately. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Then I kissed Mrs. Agnes Quine ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The third stayed behind a moment, bowed over her hand and kissed it. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | They hugged and kissed each other for ever so long. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Water Kissed Rose" by Shonna Clark Commentary: "A red rose in full bloom that's been kissed by some dew." | "Rimini by night" by Luca Pellanda Commentary: "Beach kissed by the moon." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bret Harte | Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. |
Francois Rabelais | Every one to his taste, as the woman said when she kissed her sow. |
John Gay | O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on. |
Voltaire | The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. |
William Shakespeare | He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Harriet kissed her hand in silent and submissive gratitude |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | He gravely kissed my Lady, shook hands with his brother and the Chancellor, and left the room |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Poor Bob sat down in it, and when he had thought a little and composed himself, he kissed the little face |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | My brother kissed the child, and borrowed fifteen (r)sous that I had with me to give to mother Gerbaud |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His mother kissed him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. Sir Lavender Portwine, in favor at court, Was wroth at his master, who'd kissed Lady Port. His anger provoked him to take the king's head, But duty prevailed, and he took the king's bread, Instead. G.J. E |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Gene Wilder | Yes! And I'm that little boy you used to bathe and tuck into bed and bring warm milk and cookies too, just before you kissed me good night. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "KISSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 85.01% of the time. "KISSED" is used about 1,712 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 85.01% | 1,455 | 5,564 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 14.64% | 251 | 18,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.18% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.18% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,712 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "KISSED": sun-kissed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "KISSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 亲吻 (KISS, kissing). (various references) | |
French | baisai, baisées, baisée, baisé, baisâmes, baisa. (various references) | |
German | küsste (bussed). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tercium (learned). (various references) | |
Korean | 키스하는. (various references) | |
Manx | paagit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | issedkay.(various references) | |
Russian | целовать (kiss, kissing). (various references) | |
Swedish | kysste. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 29, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai efilhsen iakwb thn rachl kai bohsaV th fwnh autou eklausen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et adaquato grege osculatus est eam elevataque voce flevit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the flok watered, he kisside hir, and with areryd voys she wepte. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Iacob kyssed Rahel and lyfte vp his voyce and wepte: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 29, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Jacob mihalok kang Raquel, ug gipatugbaw niya ang iyang tingog, ug mihilak siya. |
| Croatian | Zatim Jakov poljubi Rahelu, a onda briznu u plaè. |
| Danish | Så kyssede han Rakel og brast i Gråd; |
| Dutch | En Jakob kuste Rachel; en hij hief zijn stem op en weende. |
| Finnish | Ja Jaakob suuteli Raakelia ja korotti äänensä ja itki. |
| French | Et Jacob baisa Rachel, il éleva la voix et pleura. |
| German | Und er küßte Rahel und weinte laut |
| Haitian Creole | Lè l' fini, li bo Rachèl. Apre sa, li pran kriye. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian ia mencium Rahel, dan menangis karena terharu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan diciumlah oleh Yakub akan Rakhel, serta menangislah ia dengan nyaring suaranya. |
| Maori | Na ka kihi a Hakopa i a Rahera, a nui atu tona reo ki te tangi. |
| Norwegian | Og Jakob kysset Rakel og brast i gråt. |
| Rumanian | Apoi Iacov a sqrutat pe Rahela, wi a knceput sq plkngq tare. |
| Swedish | Och Jakob kysste Rakel och brast ut i gråt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "KISSED": bekissed, outkissed, unkissed. (additional references) | |
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"KISSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cisse, dissed, issed, Kasse, Keasse, Keisse, Kessi, Keussen, Kiscoe, kise, kissa, Kissett, Kissi, Kissov, Kossof, Kossov, Kossut, Kyse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "KISSED" (pronounced ki"st) |
| 4 | k i" s t | kist. |
| 3 | -i" s t | assist, cist, coexist, consist, cyst, delist, desist, dismissed, enlist, exist, fist, gist, grist, hissed, insist, list, missed, mist, persist, pissed, preexist, reminisced, resist, schist, subsist, twist, wist, wrist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-k-s-s" | |
-1 letter: desks, dikes, disks, sides, sikes, skids, skied, skies. | |
-2 letters: desk, dies, dike, disk, diss, ides, kids, kiss, seis, side, sike, skid, skis. | |
-3 letters: die, dis, eds, ess, ids, kid, sei, sis, ski. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, es, id, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-k-s-s" | |
+2 letters: bekissed, dislikes, disyokes, doeskins, droskies, duskiest, kindless, kindness, redskins, sickbeds, skidders, skydives, unkissed. | |
+3 letters: backsides, banksides, deerskins, dickenses, diestocks, diskettes, dislikers, docksides, droshkies, duskiness, fossicked, kaddishes, kiddushes, kingsides, lakesides, milksheds, outkissed, sheikdoms, sidekicks, sidewalks, silkweeds, skiddiest, skinheads, skydivers, stickseed, tickseeds, weaksides. | |
+4 letters: asterisked, backslides, bakshished, diakineses, diakinesis, dickcissel, disembarks, dyskinesia, handspikes, kaiserdoms, kindlessly, kindliness, kindnesses, rockslides, sheikhdoms, sidestroke, sidetracks, skirmished, snakebirds, spikenards, stickseeds, stickweeds, stinkweeds, tracksides, unkindness, videodisks, wickedness. | |
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