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Cuddling   /kˈədlɪŋ/   Listen
Cuddling

noun
1.
Affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs).  Synonyms: caressing, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling.


Cuddle

verb
(past & past part. cuddled; pres. part. cuddling)
1.
Move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position.  Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle.  "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags"
2.
Hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth.





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"Cuddling" Quotes from Famous Books



... had kept by Starke since the moment he came into the breakfast-room, cuddling down across his feet when he was called away. The man had only patted him absently, saying that all dogs did so with him, he didn't know why. Thor followed him now. Friend Turner beckoned the clergyman back ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various
... to keep my eye steadily on the youngsters sitting six in a row, and, to my great surprise, when she reappeared they had left their perch, which was in plain sight, and I could not rediscover them for some time. Finally, however, I espied them cuddling among some leafy twigs a few feet away, where the mother resumed her duties of purveyor. My opinion is that she had begun to feel uneasy for their safety in the exposed place where I could see them so plainly, and so, while I was looking elsewhere, had persuaded them to ...
— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
... puss!" whispered Carrie, cuddling the black head dropped on her shoulder; and the other girls thoughtfully turned away to watch the sea-gulls careening about the mastheads of ...
— Tabitha's Vacation • Ruth Alberta Brown
... blazing logs; no one else was present but a young peon. He brought a small kettle to the parlor fire, and lifted a table to the hearth, and then replenished the pile of logs for burning during the night. Isabel, cuddling in a large chair, watched Antonia, as she went softly about putting on the table such delicacies as she could find at that hour. Tamales and cold duck, sweet cake and the guava jelly that was Isabel's ...
— Remember the Alamo • Amelia E. Barr
... so horrid and I like to imagine only pleasant things," said Anne, cuddling Davy. "There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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