| 词汇 | kissing cousin |
| 词源 | kissing cousin. Kissing cousins is a southern Americanism that dates back before the Civil War. The term first implied a distant blood relationship, but today more often means a very close friend who is considered family. It still is used in its origi- nal sense of a relative far removed enough to permit marriage, “an eighth cousin” in the North. |
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