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Eskimo-kiss
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English
Etymology
en Eskimo kiss.
Verb
To rub one’s nose against something or another’s nose.
en Liz Ireland Baby for Hire Harlequin 1999 978-1-4592-5010-9 How could you reason with a man who was Eskimo-kissing a six-month-old?
en w:Janet McDonald Spellbound w:Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001 978-1-4668-0056-4 The sight of this tough-looking kid cooing and Eskimo-kissing a puppy made Dell smile.
en Crystal Green A Tycoon in Texas Harlequin 2005 978-1-4592-1639-6 Had he just been Eskimo-kissing a woman?
en Vicki Kuyper Wonderlust: A Spiritual Travelogue for the Adventurous Soul New Hope® Publishers 2007 978-1-59669-076-9 But my next three “turns” would be donated to other participants who actually enjoyed the process of having their arms pulled out of their sockets while balancing precariously on one big toe and Eskimo-kissing slimy dew-coated rocks with their nose.
en Andrew Lansdown Cat Little Book of Cats w:National Library of Australia 2009 25 9780642276919 Now it has scrabbled onto the sag where she sat in the old deckchair and is gingerly sniffing, Eskimo-kissing, the weathered canvas, testing tentatively with whisker and paw the pliant surface, unsure if this is where to curl and nap in the weak midwinter sun.
en w:Mark Oldman Oldman’s Brave New World of Wine: Pleasure, Value, and Adventure Beyond Wine’s Usual Suspects w:W. W. Norton & Company 2010 67 978-0-393-33484-5 While your palate positevely vibrates with excitement, your nose may detect hints of green apples, pears, and limes, along with a chalky minerality—all in all, a spritzy, pleasantly sour rush that will revive you faster than Eskimo-kissing a round of smelling salts.
en Claudette Melanson Riptide: Betrayal of Blood book 3 of the Maura DeLuca Trilogy 2016 191 978-0-9949090-6-0 I felt someone Eskimo-kissing my nose.
en Daniel Browne In the Weeds Garrett County Press 2018 9781939430205 It’s not like she was rolling around, Eskimo-kissing puppies all day;
en Brinda Rao-Pothuraju Vanity Pains w:Notion Press 2018 978-1-64249-102-9 We’d lick raindrops off the hood / Eskimo-kissing the handles / As Mary buckled us in
en Marata Eros Puck T. Rose Press 2019 9780463613696 Our noses are Eskimo-kissing close.