(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").
Muddle
Definition:
(v. t.) To make turbid, or muddy, as water.
(v. t.) To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
(v. t.) To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
(v. t.) To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.
(v. i.) To dabble in mud.
(v. i.) To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
(n.) A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of course, every divorce is costly; but muddling through would be even more costly.
(2) The failure to make the single currency work with a wider group of countries means that the attempt to muddle through has reached the end of its natural life.
(3) Instead, we're likely to be stuck with more muddling-through.
(4) "In this era where we see growing open-mindedness, his actions are muddle-headed and careless," said the letter, which was briefly posted to the internet before it was taken down by censors .
(5) Although it remains unclear why he chose to place the muddled woman in a kitchen – clinging to her mug and surrounded by children's toys – as opposed to say, in a laboratory or a truck, he claims all the words were authentically spoken by "women in dozens of focus groups around the country", prior to being stitched together in this latest triumph for the fashionable, verbatim school of drama.
(6) McCluskey, with Unite probably Labour’s single largest donor, has claimed Labour lost the election not because it was too leftwing but largely because it had a muddled message on austerity and lacked a coherent narrative linking together individually popular policies.
(7) A toxic mix of cuts and muddled thinking about personalisation has led some to suggest that social work is an optional extra in adult social care.
(8) Hungry delphiniums, water-loving astilbe and drought-tolerant lupins would all be muddled together, with the thirstiest plants dictating the watering regime.
(9) United were sterile in possession, the ball was given away with monotonous regularity in dangerous positions and their muddled thinking was encapsulated by the sight of Phil Jones taking a couple of corners and Neil Swarbrick, the referee, penalising Antonio Valencia for a foul throw.
(10) Having read her book and met her, however, I wouldn't be surprised if the debate becomes muddled with how she presents her case – because she annoyed me so much when we met, we almost ended up having a row, despite the fact that I agree with a great deal of what she says.
(11) Drinks at Jade Bar are in keeping with the spa setting: fruity and herbaceous “muddles” (alcoholic or not) are a speciality, and the bartenders host mixology sessions on Sundays, or by appointment.
(12) At the time they were stressful – battling with traffic, fights over radio stations, squabbles over who was going to sit in the front seat and listening to a muddle of languages together with drama lines and songs to be sung.
(13) Sara Parkin London • It is very apposite of Zoe Williams ( Opinion , 25 February) to quote Roberto Unger with regard to the supposed “unmasking” of the Green party leader as some kind of political fraud; namely, she tried to answer a question directly and got into a bit of a muddle.
(14) Sean Spicer muddles answer when pressed on Trump and Russia investigation Read more Page, like Trump, has challenged US policy towards Russia and called for warmer relations between the two countries.
(15) Like Rona Jaffe's novel of the 50s, The Best of Everything – a book that Rakoff loves and reread before she started work on My Salinger Year – it is concerned with what it feels like to move to the big city, to take on your first job, and to struggle to survive on a tiny salary when all the while your dreams are seemingly being snuffed out at every turn, and your love life is spiralling into muddle and mayhem.
(16) Wallace is a hopeless deadpan dropout, a loser in love and a bumbling muddle.
(17) This is a very badly timed speech, showing some very muddled and dangerous thinking.
(18) The substitutions were muddle-headed, the team too negative, he might have won the World Cup but now he had lost it.
(19) The reality for many disabled people is it’s a muddle and a minefield to have an easy pee.
(20) 'A tremendous wrench': Sir Ivan Rogers's resignation email in full Read more He wrote: “I hope you will continue to challenge ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking and that you will never be afraid to speak the truth to those in power.