What's the difference between cuddle and huggle?

Cuddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
  • (v. t.) To embrace closely; to fondle.
  • (n.) A close embrace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main areas of neurological status and behaviour which are affected by obstetric conditions are lability of states, alertness, orientation, habituation, activity, hand to mouth activity, defensive movements, head control and resistance to cuddle.
  • (2) With Diego I wanted him to do a certain movement that he didn’t and I was disappointed and reacted and he reacted too, but at half-time in the dressing room there were a few kisses and cuddles,” Mourinho said after the game.
  • (3) But of course, he misses cuddles from his mum,” Johnson said.
  • (4) I feel creatively stifled by the BBC every single day - but I'm a writer and 'creatively stifled' counts as anything short of an instant series commission, a guaranteed second series, a cuddle, a guaranteed third series, and a whispered invitation back to 'my place' (where I'll explain that really I've got a five-series arc in mind, and a spin-off.)
  • (5) She's making the exact same noise, at the exact same volume, that rabbits do when you cuddle them a little bit too hard.
  • (6) This, he writes, is "the fundamental consumerist delusion – that other people care more about the artificial products you display through consumerist spending than about the natural traits you display through normal conversation, cooperation, and cuddles."
  • (7) For instance, being cuddled, played with and generally well cared for by your parents is powerfully associated with fewer social and emotional problems in later life.
  • (8) The mode of transmission to babies is not from cuddling or handling.
  • (9) When not at work, they’re just as likely to enjoy walking the dogs or cuddling up on the couch in loungewear (possibly more likely: dolling oneself up for a living is exhausting) as demanding you get yourselves to a pay-by-the-hour dungeon.
  • (10) Alongside his all-action posts of wrestling crocodiles and cuddling tigers, Kadyrov has issued a heartfelt plea for help finding his missing cat.
  • (11) In being coerced to kiss or cuddle someone they don't want to, that child is being told that how they feel, what they want to do with their own bodies, doesn't really matter.
  • (12) Leat was also seen lifting up and touching young girls in the playground and tickling and cuddling pupils in class.
  • (13) Three distinctive interactional patterns presenting adaptational challenges are discussed: the family's adaptation to the child's hyperactivity, the family's adaptation to the child's avoidance of contact and cuddling from early infancy, and perceived incompatibility between the child's personality and the parents' style.
  • (14) "But it's just Heartbeat with an umbilical hernia," bleat the unbelievers, pinching their delicate nosey-woses at the sight of steaming prolapses and swatting away the cuddles and godliness with their Game Of Thrones box sets.
  • (15) I always felt a bit sorry for her biological children Mark and Carol, wondering from whom they would get their cuddles.
  • (16) The treatment was given on cue and consisted of rocking, cuddling, visual and verbal interaction, and non-nutritive sucking to satiety.
  • (17) He then told her "to cuddle him like she would one of her teddies".
  • (18) Babies cry for lots of reasons – tiredness, a dirty nappy, wind, being too hot or cold, wanting a cuddle, being bored or overstimulated.
  • (19) While better educated staff may be very welcome when it comes to playing imaginative games with children, or introducing them to the alphabet, there's no substitute for pairs of hands to do up little buttons, push buggies and give out cuddles.
  • (20) Zuckerberg recently set up a page for his dog Beast , including photographs and details such as his personal interests ("cuddling, loving, eating").

Huggle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hug.

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