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1705 in Notes & Queries (1971) Feb. 46/1 You can father it..just as you did another man's philosophical essay upon the wind..when you made bold with several pages from the learned Dr. Bohun, without saying so much to the Dr. for his assistance as kiss my a–se.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. ix. 288 The Wit..lies in desiring another to kiss your A— for having just before threatened to kick his. View more context for this quotation

1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 183 If it weren't that I had learned how to kiss the boss's ass, I would have been fired.

1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier x. 196 You ‘get on’..by..kissing the bums of verminous little lions.

1938 L. MacNeice Earth Compels 34 Let us thank God for valour in abstraction For those who go their own way, will not kiss The arse of law and order.

1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues vi. 71 You've got to kiss everybody's behind to get ten minutes to do eight sides in.

1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues vii. 78 I threw the money at him and told him to kiss my ass and tell Miss Waters to do the same.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 169 To curry favor with a professor... There are three occurrences of kiss ass.

1972 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 3 Nov. 1/5 McGovern had told an airport antagonist to ‘kiss my a..’. The candidate's national political director..joked that the remark had been rather natural for a Democratic nominee. ‘After all,’ Mankiewicz said, ‘he can't say kiss my elephant.’