kissing cousin

1. 1.

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

   Synonymskissing kin

   Broaderrelative

Questions about kissing cousin

What does kissing cousin mean?

kissing cousin means "a more or less distant relative; familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss".

What is another word for kissing cousin?

Close synonyms include kissing kin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kissing cousin a common word?

kissing cousin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.