Green’s Dictionary of Slang

French kiss n.

[French kiss v.]

a deep kiss, using the tongue as well as the lips.

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[US]F. Hurst ‘Oats for the Woman’ in Humoresque 78: Pressing a necklace of kisses round her throat [...] ‘One more, darling – a French one.’.
[US]M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 180: She [...] gave him a long French kiss.
[UK]R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 103: Give that there hokey pokey blokey a nice French kiss for me, will you?
[Aus]B. Humphries Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 82: Outside the door he receives a French kiss from attractive ‘model’ Germaine.
[UK]P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 45: She ran out after he tried to give her a ‘French kiss’.
[US]J. Lahr Hot to Trot 16: Rules of the Game – French kiss.
[Aus]‘Thommo’ Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings n.p.: FRENCH KISS — A passionate, sensuous kiss where each partners tongue is entwined, sucked and poked into each others mouth.
[US]‘Victoria Parker’ Pay for Play Cheerleaders 🌐 Then he broke the kiss and leaned over to Chrissie. Their wet mouths met in a fucking French kiss. His hand diddled her cunt.
[SA]P.-D. Uys No Space on Long Street (2000) 114: sofie French kiss! You go too far!
[US]Chris Fothergill-Brown ‘WWE Confidential Report’ 30 Jun. 🌐 And The Rock used to put his arm around you, and we used to kiss a little bit. [Kissing the Rock = 1st base] We used to kiss a little bit, and a lot of tongue. You used to love The Rock’s tongue didn’t you? [Tongue = French kiss] [The British call it “Snogging].
[SA]IOL News (Western Cape) 26 Aug. 🌐 Kissing with tongues has been known as ‘French kissing’ as far apart as Russia and [...] Britain.

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