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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



... Fraser, retreating in alarm. "I never had no measles." But Chakawana went on cuddling the infant in a motherly fashion ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach
... up and the mother caught the little girl and began playing with her, tying her hair ribbon, smoothing out her skirts, rubbing a dirt speck from her nose, and cuddling the little one rapturously in her arms. When the two women were alone, Laura sat on the veranda steps with her head resting upon her mother's knee. The mother touched the soft hair and said: ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... the hill to kiss the wattle-trees while they seemed to sleep; but the trees were really quite wide-awake, and stretched out their pretty arms and caught the sunbeams and would never let them go; and now through the winter the wattles hide the sun rays away in their roots, cuddling them softly; but in spring they let them come out on the branches and play wild games in the breeze, but will never let ...
— Peeps At Many Lands: Australia • Frank Fox
... please,' the boy repeated, cuddling up. They all drew, where possible, nearer. Their belief in their father's powers, rarely justified, was pathetic. Each time they felt sure he would make the adventures seem real, yet somehow he never quite did. They were aware that it was invention only. These things ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... the child assured her. "It's ten times lovelier than ever I 'spected—only," she added, cuddling down for another long ...
— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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