单词 | nose rubbing |
释义 | > as lemmasnose rubbing nose rubbing n. the action or practice of rubbing noses together in greeting or as an expression of affection; cf. hongi n. ΚΠ 1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. I. i. ii. 61 Leaving him to indulge his natural feeling in hongi..or nose-rubbing. 1943 J. F. Folsom Family & Democratic Soc. xi. 370 There are whole societies, such as the Chinese, which do not regard the kiss as a source of pleasure, but which practice nose rubbing or some other form of caress instead. 1990 Philos. Perspectives 4 9 The spontaneous embrace is itself fairly invariant, but its formalized version..shows considerable cross-culural variation—from kissing to nose rubbing. < as lemmas |
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