Re: Kiss (was: Many Words for One Concept (was: Interesting Words))

daniel andreasson:
> David Bell wrote:
>
> > but lists the following for the noun, 'petting':
> >
> > 1. caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking,
> > petting, smooching, snuggling -- (foreplay without contact
> > with the genital organs)
>
> In Swedish, it is actually the "contact with the genital organs"
> which characterizes petting. (We have the same word in Swedish.)
> I thought it was the same in English.
The Swedes are notoriously Progressive, advanced at least one
Base[*] beyond everybody else.

[*The _Base_ being the ordinal unit of coitional progress.]

--And.

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