Osculation

Tish says our vulgar lip-osculation is unknown in the Orient and that they rub noses by way of greeting. ❋ Unknown (1916)

I've half a mind to ride back and have him out for that rascal "osculation" and the lady unwilling! ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Probably explaining inosculation in a letter to a gentleman in County Armagh is as close as I’ll ever get to any kind of osculation any more. ❋ Imogen (2009)

Before we get to that, a quick refresher on why we engage in a practice which involves the exchange of, by one estimate, 278 colonies of bacteria per osculation. ❋ Ewillett (2009)

Driving a vehicle over these roads creates a banging osculation from the base of the spine to the top of the neck, an experience that even John Yoo would characterize as torture. ❋ Matthew Bergman (2010)

So with sovereign ambition she steeled herself to the daily horrors of amphibian osculation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If osculation is a mark of love, surely Mrs. Mack is the best of mothers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In the photo at left, Premier Danny Williams explains the proper hand technique for seizing the ruling cheeks before planting the mandatory laudatory osculation on The Leader's hindmost region. ❋ Ed Hollett (2006)

A more recent variation is tongue sushi, which shows some metaphoric imagination: the Japanese sushi—cold rice rolled up with bits of raw fish and vegetables—is evoked to describe the mutual rolling-up of teenage linguae engaged in lubricious osculation. ❋ William Safire (2004)

And in my haste I had forgotten that Ruth might not know a word about this, and might doubt about my meaning, and the warmth of my osculation. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

In a sense, Domino's kisses were rather like Suzy's, which is to say, they were both eager and shy, adventurous and uncertain, yet there was a strength in them (or immediately behind them), a solidity that made him feel that this simple, oddish act of osculation, was somehow supported by and connected to each and every one of what Bobby Case's ol" Chinese boys called "The Ten Thousand Things. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2000)

“Why, good morning, Eddie,” the dear woman exclaimed as I stepped up beside her and planted a fond, filial osculation upon her cheek. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)