kissing kin

1. 1.

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

   Synonymskissing cousin

   Broaderrelative

Questions about kissing kin

What does kissing kin mean?

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

What is another word for kissing kin?

Close synonyms include kissing cousin. 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 kin a common word?

kissing kin 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.