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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



... Nita Selim, almost cuddling under his arm within three minutes of meeting him—dead! A vision of her black-pansy eyes, so wide and luminous and wistful as they had looked sideways and upward to his, pleading for him to join her after-bridge cocktail party, nearly made him crash into a lumbering furniture ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin

... assured her that it would give her pleasure to be left alone with the goats, Heidi started on her walk. Clara slowly handed one leaf after another to the little creature; it became more and more confiding, and cuddling close to the child, ate the herbs out of her hand. It was easy to see how happy it was to be away from the boisterous big goats, which often annoyed it. Clara felt a sensation of contentment such as she had never before experienced. She loved ...
— Heidi - (Gift Edition) • Johanna Spyri

... pale, looked in at the Thomas door, there sat Sarah Thomas, a large, unkempt, wild-visaged, but gentle creature, holding little Lucy and cuddling her, while Lucy, shrinking away as far as she was able, kept her big, dark eyes of wonder and fear upon the woman's face. And all around were clustered the Thomas children, unkempt as their mother, a gentle but degenerate ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... carrying off the Parecis women and in other ways making themselves bad neighbors. The colonel tried hard to get at the truth of the matter; he went to the biggest Indian house, where he sat in a hammock—an Indian child cuddling solemnly up to him, by the way— while the Indians sat in other hammocks, and stood round about; but it was impossible to ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt

... was nodding over her beads, in the comfortable radius made by the 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 favorite dainty. There was a little ...
— Remember the Alamo • Amelia E. Barr


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