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Snuggle   /snˈəgəl/   Listen
Snuggle

verb
(past & past part. snuggled; pres. part. snuggling)
1.
Move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position.  Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle.  "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags"
2.
Position comfortably.  Synonym: nestle.






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"Snuggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... selfish and bad, or what am I? I know you'll love me, whatever it is, and I wish now I could snuggle on that soft, cushiony shoulder of yours and go ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson

... hands, suh—but I ain't begrudging it if it leaves the boy a bit better off. Lord, thar's many and many a night,when I was little and my stepfather kicked me out of doors without a bite, that I used to steal into somebody or other's cow-shed and snuggle for warmth into the straw—yes, and suck the udders of the cows for food, too. Oh, I've had a hard enough life, for all the way it looks now—and I'm not saying that if the choice was mine I'd go over it agin even as it stands to-day. We're set here ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

... to speak a bold word or two, inspired possibly by my effort to appear more friendly, but I gave him small opportunity to become offensive, for the raw, disagreeable atmosphere furnished me with sufficient excuse to snuggle down beneath blankets, and ...
— Beyond the Frontier • Randall Parrish

... you it's some chilly out here, with only pajamas on," objected Giraffe; "and for one I'm going to skip back under my blanket, where I can snuggle down. Somebody remember to throw a little wood on the fire, please. Let Davy ...
— The, Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island - or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers • Herbert Carter

... flattened back and down at the sound, and the head seemed to snuggle under the caress ...
— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London

... old my father emigrated to America. I seem to remember him. I have asked my grandmother if he did not sing "Annie Laurie"; if he did not dance and fling me toward the ceiling in a riot of playfulness; if he did not snuggle me under my tender chin and tickle me with his mustaches. She confirmed these seemingly recollected episodes. But of his face I have no memory. There is no picture of him. They told me that he was tall and strong, and ruddy of face; that my beak nose is like his, my square forehead, my firm ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... leanin's. There'll be a girl you'll want to snuggle right clost to.... G'-by, Parson, I'll keep ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland



Words linked to "Snuggle" :   clutch, snuggling, put, nest, draw close, hold close, hold tight, place, lay, pose, embrace, cling to, position, embracement, set, embracing, nestle



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