xoxo

• xo, XO, xoxoxo, XOXO

From use of X/x to mean “kiss” and O/o to mean “hug”. Use of “X” to indicate a kiss attested since 1763,^[1][2] preceded by medieval use of an “X”, which was then kissed by illiterates to indicate a signature.^[3] Use of “O” is more recent, and presumably created by analogy (e.g., X/O in tic-tac-toe). Speculative theories on precise origins abound, including folk etymologies (for example, the notion that the X represents the crossed arms of a hug and that the O represents the pursed lips of a kiss).

• IPA^(key): [ɛksəʊɛksəʊ]

xoxo

1. Abbreviation of hugs and kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter.

   Synonyms: 88, X's and O's

• xxx
• ooo

From Proto-Gbe *χoχó.^[1] Cognates include Fon xóxó, Gun hóhó, Saxwe Gbe xíxó and Adja xoxu.

xoxo

1. old

xoxo

1. already

• hóhó (Nigeria)

From Proto-Gbe *χoχó.^[1] Cognates include Fon xóxó, Saxwe Gbe xíxó, Adja xoxu, Ewe xoxo

• IPA^(key): /xó.xó/

xóxó (Benin)

1. to be old

xoxo (Raguileo spelling)

1. convex

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

xoxo

1. first-person singular present indicative of xoxar

• xo

Inherited from Late Latin iōsum, from Classical Latin deorsum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈz̠oːz̠o̞]

xóxo

1. down

   Antonym: suxo

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1611: “scendete laggiù!” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it