billing+and+cooing
21nestling — 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 …
22petting — 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,… …
23sexual 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,… …
24blandishment — n. 1. Fascination, flattery, cajolery, cajoling compliment, artful caresses, coaxing, wheedling. 2. Caressing, caresses, endearment, soft words, expression of affection, billing and cooing, toying, fawning. 3. Delight, joy, pleasure, attraction,… …
25caressing — n. Fondling, endearment, blandishment, billing and cooing …
26dalliance — n. Caressing, fondling, endearments, billing and cooing …
27dalliance — n 1. dawdling, dillydallying, shilly shallying, procrastination; delay, Archaic. tarriance, loitering, lingering, Sl. hanging around; idling, loafing, Inf. lallygagging, Sl. goofing off. 2. trifling, toying, fiddling, playing, tinkering,… …
28endearment — n 1. affection, fondness, attachment, tie, bond. 2. fondling, petting, necking, spooning, Sl. canoo dling, lovemaking, Inf. making out; caress, hug, cuddle, squeeze, embrace; osculation, kiss, buss, Inf. smack, Inf. smacker, Inf. big fat kiss;… …
29flirtation — n 1. coquetry, flirting, vamping, affectation of love, gallantry; trifling, toying, dallying, dalliance, philandering; wooing, Inf. sparking, courting, billing and cooing, necking, petting, Inf. spooning, serenading; googoo eyes, sheep s eyes,… …
30happy’s the wooing that is not long a-doing — 1576 R. EDWARDS Paradise of Dainty Devices 71 Thrise happie is that woying That is not long a doyng. 1624 BURTON Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 2) III. ii. Blessed is the wooing, That is not long a doing. 1754 RICHARDSON Grandison I. ix. What… …
