Re: Kiss (was: Many Words for One Concept (was: Interesting Words))
| From: | daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 18, 2001, 14:53 |
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David Bell wrote:
> but lists the following for the noun, 'petting':
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> 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.
||| daniel
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