KISSING COUSIN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A more or less distant relative; familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss

Synonyms:

kissing cousin; kissing kin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("kissing cousin" is a kind of...):

relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)

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