"mwah-mwah" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: mwah-mwahs [present, singular, third-person], mwah-mwahing [participle, present], mwah-mwahed [participle, past], mwah-mwahed [past]
Etymology: Imitative, repeating mwah. Etymology templates: {{m|en|mwah}} mwah Head templates: {{en-verb}} mwah-mwah (third-person singular simple present mwah-mwahs, present participle mwah-mwahing, simple past and past participle mwah-mwahed)
  1. (colloquial) To kiss in an exaggerated fashion, especially without making contact. Tags: colloquial Categories (topical): Love Coordinate_terms: air kiss Translations (kiss in an exaggerated fashion): 麼麼噠 (Chinese Mandarin), 么么哒 (memedā) (Chinese Mandarin), pussailla (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-mwah-mwah-en-verb-hRQKKDvf Categories (other): Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for mwah-mwah meaning in English (1.8kB)

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          "word": "麼麼噠"
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          "sense": "kiss in an exaggerated fashion",
          "word": "么么哒"
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