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lip bitingly good, mouth to mouth, pucker up for heaven's sake, smackaroony, speaking with forked tongue, sweeter than wine, tongue ain't wrong, tonsil hockey
The Cloud Concise Dictionary of Sparkling and Strange Words presents;
Cattaglotism.
Pronunciation:
kætəˈɡlɒtɪz(ə)m (apparently)
Definition:
1. To kiss warmly with tongues touching.
Its Greek prefix — meaning “down”, but often with an implication of disparagement or abuse or of something inferior or unpleasant — turns up also in cataclysm, catastrophe, catafalque, and catarrh — a dispiriting set of bed-fellows for this mildly erotic term. Its second part is from Greek glottis, a variant of glossa, tongue.
Sometimes referred to as ‘French Kissing’.
Interesting extras:
The Romans helped to spread the habit to most of Europe and north Africa. The Romans were passionate about kissing and talked about several types of kissing. Kissing the hand or cheek was called a baseum. Kissing on the lips with mouth closed was called an osculum, which was used between relatives. A kiss of passion was called a saveum.
The Vedic texts of ancient India dating ca. 1500 B.C. onwards talk about rubbing noses together. The epic poem Mahabharata mentions mouth-to-mouth kissing. There is a theory that kissing originated in Ancient India and was spread to Greece by Alexander’s conquering armies. Against that theory is the clear mention of deep kissing in Aristophanes’ play The Clouds*, which was written ca. 420 BC.
Esme’s an old gal see? *beams
Jan De La Force said:
The tags were just as fascinating as the featured word is! 🙂
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sonmicloud said:
Thank you. I try to make the tags part of the post in a way. An afterthought that connects if the reader wants it too 🙂
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jim- said:
“To kiss warmly with tongues touching”— Tongues touching what?
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Elbows. Of course. Always elbows apart from when one is particularly gifted, then ankles may be involved.
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john zande said:
Nothing quite like a good elbow.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Very true John. Marilyn agreed.
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john zande said:
The elbows that started a war.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
I almost used one of Bettie Page, then things might have gone nuclear.
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Ben Naga said:
I can’t see the reason for the double t. Am I missing something? (As has been known to happen on occasion.) I see no mention of ATM, but perhaps that’s as well.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
It’s for an afternoon with crumpets option, an extra tea, you see?
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Ben Naga said:
Hmm … (Apparently less than convinced.)
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Ben Naga said:
(You may need the Urban Dictionary for that one. 😈 )
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
I’m quite a fan of ‘cataflage’ from there.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cataflage
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Ben Naga said:
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/cataflage/85257766/
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Hahahaha, an excellent example Ben, thank you.
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Ben Naga said:
You are most welcome, Esme.
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tubularsock said:
Tubularsock hesitates to even think about the origins of the phrase. “cat’s got my tongue”!
Suppose one could find out “Romeing” around.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Very nice. not for you, or the cat presumably, but what you get up to on a Saturday night is not for Esme to sniff at.
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Professor Taboo said:
Sparkling and Strange Words, eh? This post should be rated at least R-21 by the BBFC! Oh my! Be STILL my pounding libido!!! 😵
Woman…you have greatly inspired, no… lifted, no better still… ERECTIFIED all my saveums, baseums, osculums into a rather slippery steamy orgium!!! 🥵 Whew! I’m feeling rather like…
El Toro on steroids now! Thank you Madame Esme! 😁
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
‘Be STILL my pounding libido!!!’ – Just be still all over, that’ll save the police being called.
Again.
Hahahahaha. Nice collection of ‘ums’ mind you, I’m sure the laydeez have said so previously. You’re as welcome as you are likely to be considering the rectification business.
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Professor Taboo said:
WHAT!!!!??? (in a most puzzled astonished expression!) Did you say…
Rectum-fication!??? (prepares to stand his backside firmly against the nearest rock wall!!!)
Oh dear, wait a minute. (…pondering his ponders) How many “rock walls” are Upon the Madame’s Cloud???
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
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Professor Taboo said:
Hahahahaha!!! (blows her kisses with his ‘look-no-hands-OR-arms’ wrapping as he tumbles down bouncing off each cloud like a ping-pong ball)
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Clare Flourish said:
One of the ways of finding your immune systems are complementary, I understand.
I’m just an old romantic…
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Ha, ’tis true mind, plus, at the mixing of chemicals whole eclipses of suns (and a few ellipsises . . . ) can erupt.
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Bill Ziegler said:
Catta got your glottis?
Polyglot your tongue?
Polly parrots polyglot.
Porry pallots porygrot.
— Baseum Valerium Catullum
🙂
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Hahahahahaha – cracking lot, no spot of grot, more a song for the tongue afore long, (tis).
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happyaslarrycouk said:
Further more, kissing the neck is said to have originated in Transylvania and was originally called batteum by Roman scholars who had fist fights over who invented it first.
In the meantime, other people’s had advanced this type of intercourse further without any kind of Latin reference manual and had unwittingly reproduced to fill the lands of various Nations.
The scholars has no idea how they did this as it had been proven conclusively that kissing did not result by direct association in child bearing. Nevertheless, it did provide much laughter with the invention of the no eye dear joke in 333BC.
Like many folk today, the folk just got in with it and left the scholars doing their own thing trying to prove what was going on by theorising a description then seeking proof of it. These scholars tend only to believe things that are described but not those that have yet to be, especially, if practiced outside ‘scientific’ circles.
The circle is largely a representative of a story that has no end but if you look closely most circles are actually spirals composed of multiple layers of pencil cycles.
The cycle manages to use two circles as wheels even though a circle has been proven never to close. How these exist, much like the ability of the bee to ‘fly’ confounds scholars in coffee shops and pubs everywhere to this day.
This lead to much amusement in the creation of the ‘What do you call a fly with no wings?’ joke.
Scholars often make for very good comedic material.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
By the Gods and medium-sized dogs Larry, you’ve done your homework there, though I suspect it all comes quite naturally to you, hahahahaha. Thank you for such a stupendous comment, I appreciate the effort put in!
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happyaslarrycouk said:
Riding with you in spirit and mind!
😁
Your writing inspires an easy flow of consciousness that knows no end!
😁💕
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Thank you sir, that’s one of the core aims of The Cloud, inspiration! I appreciate you finding it the case.
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smilecalm said:
sorry you can
not see me
pucker up 🙂
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Ha! I might just do so for the cheek of you!
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Kris Jennings said:
Esme—
I have nominated you for the Sunshine blogger award, which is a very prestigious and glamorous award that will bring great honor to the cloud —and really just a great way to connect my readers to bloggers I enjoy (you!) Keep the chain going if your time allows…😉
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Thank you again Kris, I am honoured and had fun in the comment section too, hahahaha. ❤
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Hariod Brawn said:
Calm goat tits — probably forged out of that, annagramatically.
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Esme upon the Cloud said:
Good to have you back Hariod.
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