amorous dalliance, billing and cooing, bundling, caressing, cuddling, dalliance, feeling, fingering, fondling, friction, frottage, handling, hugging, kissing, lollygagging, lovemaking, manipulation, necking, nestling, nuzzling, palpation, pressure, rubbing, sexual intercourse, snuggling, spooning, stroking, touching

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petting

Endearment

N endearment, caress, blandishment, blandiment, panchement, fondling, billing and cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky, caressing, embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation, deosculation, amorous glances, courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment, lovemaking, serenading, caterwauling, flirting, flirtation, gallantry, coquetry, true lover's knot, plighted love, love tale, love token, love letter, billet-doux, valentine, honeymoon, Strephon and Chloe, caressing, sighing like furnace, love-sick, spoony, caressed, faint heart neer won fair lady, kisses honeyed by oblivion.

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