oscularly

English

Etymology

From oscular +‎ -ly.

Adverb

oscularly (not comparable)

  1. (literary, rare) By means of the mouth.
    • 1854 November, Polykomp O’Rourke [pseudonym], “The Pioneer. Written on Compulsion.”, in The Nassau Literary Magazine, volume XV, number 3, Princeton, N.J.: Senior Class of the College of New Jersey, →OCLC, page 89:
      Baby drained the bottle and now was oscularly embracing the mint-stick.
    • 1932 December 7, Eric, “‘Tons of Money’ (Daly’s)”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CLXXXIII, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 639, column 3:
      She kisses Aubrey ecstatically, declaring him oscularly unmistakable, to the discomfiture of Louise.
    • 1992, G[eoffrey] M[ichael] Goshgarian, “His Sister’s Keeper: Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World”, in To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 93:
      But her gentleman friends have already intimated what sort of drama is coming: the odd old one obscurely, the strange familiar one oscularly. The Wide, Wide World, their foreplay foretells, will revolve around com-muting her incestuous passion; and commuting it will be a matter of soliciting and refusing a daughterly kiss—forever and ever.
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