Crossword-Solution: KISSY 5 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Kissy, Sherbro, and Casamansa are all named from their 'Reguli.' They retain a few traditional words, such as 'potu,' meaning a European: similarly in Central Africa the King of Portugal is entitled Mueneputo.

From Granville Bay the traveller may return by the 'Kissy Road.' Once it was the pet promenade, the Corso, the show-walk of Freetown; now it has become a Tottenham Court Road, to which Water, Oxford, and Westmoreland Streets are preferred.

Bines, if you wish to look at them--with a pink rose over that kissy place just at their temple." She turned and looked, pretending to be quite unimpressed.

That is why the kissy-birdie Looks about for oak-tree sturdy And the plant that grows upon it Like a wax-flower on a bonnet.

But, my blessed little mannie, All the birdies are not cannie That the kissy-birdie hatches! Some are worthless little patches, Which indeed if they don't smutch you, 'Tis they're dead before they touch you! While for kisses vain and greedy, Kisses flattering, kisses needy, They are birds that never waddled Out of eggs that only addled! Some there are leave spots behind them, On your cheek for years you'd find them: Little ones, I do beseech you, Never let such birdies reach you.