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kisser |
kissing |
kissing bug |
kissing cousin |
kissing disease
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| kissing strings
| kissingcrust
| kissinger
| kist
kissing disease
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun kissing disease has 1 sense
- kissing disease(n = noun.state) glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, mono, mononucleosis - an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing; Array is a kind of infectious disease
CIDE DICTIONARY
kissing disease,
Infectious mononucleosis; -- so called because often spread by kissing. [PJC]
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