amorous+dalliance

  • 11lollygagging — Synonyms and related words: amorous dalliance, billing and cooing, bundling, caressing, cuddling, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, fondling, hugging, kissing, lag, lagging, lingering,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 12nestling — Synonyms and related words: amorous dalliance, apprentice, avifauna, baby, baby bird, beginner, billing and cooing, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdling, birdy …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 13petting — Synonyms and related words: amorous dalliance, billing and cooing, bundling, caressing, cuddling, dalliance, feeling, fingering, fondling, friction, frottage, handling, hugging, kissing, lollygagging, lovemaking, manipulation, necking, nestling,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 14sexual intercourse — Synonyms and related words: act of love, adultery, amorous dalliance, aphrodisia, ass, balling, billing and cooing, bundling, caressing, carnal knowledge, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, congress, connection,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 15dally —    to copulate with extramaritally    Originally, to talk idly, but in this usage men do it more than women:     On the night of the divorce he was out with Australian harpie with whom he dallied for a year or two. (Private Eye, April 1981)… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 16toy — /tɔɪ / (say toy) noun 1. an object, often a small imitation of some familiar thing, for children or others to play with, or otherwise derive amusement; a plaything. 2. a thing or matter of little or no value or importance. 3. a small article of… …

  • 17toy — [14] Nothing is known for certain about the origins of toy. It originally meant ‘amorous dalliance’ (‘So said he, and forbore not glance or toy, of amorous intent, well understood of Eve’, Milton, Paradise Lost 1667), traces of which survive in… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 18toy — [14] Nothing is known for certain about the origins of toy. It originally meant ‘amorous dalliance’ (‘So said he, and forbore not glance or toy, of amorous intent, well understood of Eve’, Milton, Paradise Lost 1667), traces of which survive in… …

    Word origins

  • 19Toy — (toi), n. [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials, MNG. ziuc, Icel. tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of E. tug, v. t.; cf. G. zeugen to beget, MHG. ziugen to beget, make ready …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 20toy mutch — Toy Toy (toi), n. [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials, MNG. ziuc, Icel. tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of E. tug, v. t.; cf. G. zeugen to beget, MHG. ziugen to beget,… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English