Etymology
A French kiss is so-called because at the beginning of the 20th century the French had a reputation for more adventurous and passionate sex practices. In France, it is referred to as baiser amoureux ("lover's kiss") or baiser avec la langue ("kiss with the tongue"), even if in past times it was also known as baiser florentin ("Florentine kiss"). In French slang, a French kiss is called a patin (ice skating shoe), a galoche (wooden-soled shoe), or a pelle (shovel). Doing a French kiss is referred to in slang as rouler une pelle / un patin / une galoche ("roll a shovel / a skate / a wooden-soled shoe"), s'emballer, or se galocher. In Quebec, it is also referred to se frencher, colloquial for "to French each other".
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