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kissing kin en · NOUN

Etymology

From kissing + kin.

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only, qualifier:literal or figurative) Kissing cousins.
    • Pyrrhonic irony and humor are kissing kin in The Magic Mountain (1924), for example, where Mann, the Ironic German who preferred the title of humorist, deploys his extensive "equivocal" irony basically to reconcile the irreconcilable […] 1978, Maurice Charney, Comedy: New Perspectives, page 56: