Today, I got another reply to my “Who’s in Sydney???” email. I sent this email out to all the people I know have email addresses to. I mentioned it in my last post! Anyway, this particular person (sorry, no names!) ended the email with ” x x x”. It got me thinking, what does it really mean?
XOXO is common use for the phrase, Hugs and Kisses. Wikipedia also notes, that the origins and meanings of X and O are highly debatable, stating many meanings for the letters. It says that X symbolizes the lips of the kissers, but also the crossed arms of the huggers. O can be seen as the four arms of the hug and the puckered lips of a kiss. The Wikipedia article also goes on to give religious origins of XOXO.
After reading and interpreting the article for some time, I gave up, left the meaning open to interpretation and then read about XO Sauce.
I was told that “x” also meant “the beginning” and “o” meant “the end” i’ve also hear that ‘xo’ is some sort of curse.
Comment by Lindsey — 4 September 2009 @ 9:39 am
Ummm ok your weird hahaha jokes
xoxo :P jess
Comment by JESS — 1 March 2010 @ 2:34 pm
Why bother guessing? Just make up your own!!!
Comment by teri peralta — 22 September 2010 @ 11:55 pm