(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").
Snuggle
Definition:
(v. t.) To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, Amnesty disgraced itself by snuggling up to pro-jihadists, while the RSPCA preferred to spend its money pursuing foxhunting rather than cruel factory farming.
(2) At these two wooden one-bedroom cottages on the shores of Loch Tay, you can listen to the gently lapping water as the sun goes down or snuggle up with a dram in front of the woodburning stove.
(3) A seven-year-old boy snuggles up to his mother as she finishes his bedtime story.
(4) A meaningful opposition Lucy Whitehouse, 25, London With the Tories snuggling up to the Democratic Unionists, we’re facing some serious potential lows for equality.
(5) That must be horrible – but that feeling can be short-term and the pros (snuggling up to your warm, chubby baby) surely outweigh that particular con?
(6) The 3,000 sq km frozen lake, way up in the Arctic Circle, is a long way from any light pollution, so conditions are ideal for snuggling up and watching the sky through the glass roof, or keeping warm outdoors in a mobile hot tub and sauna.
(7) 3) Examples of types of manifestations where the skin is involved in interactions--cuddling, snuggling, hugging and its relationship to clinging, kissing, tickling.
(8) We decided to bystep the happy vin chaud drinkers on the sun-filled terrace and snuggle up in the cosy interior.
(9) Then he snuggled up in my arms and fell into a contented sleep.
(10) But since the great recession that followed the financial crash of 2008, Labour believes there is little kudos to be won with voters by snuggling up to big bosses.
(11) "While it's unlikely that Google's going to hand over any user information, I still don't like how close – and how quickly – Google is snuggling up with perhaps the scariest of all government agencies," he blogged.
(12) Later that night he allegedly left another offensive post, writing: "What's the odds of Criado and Creasy snuggling and cuddling under a duvet checking their tweets and cackling like witches (rape me says Caroline)."
(13) Then, the other day, I was slain by a miniature board book called Snuggle Wuggle .
(14) What is also noticeable is the constant physical proximity when we are together: the snuggling, the wanting to have a point of contact when sitting – a shoulder, a knee – and the frequent glancing touches when we are cooking together; the fact that even when it's cold, he'll take one glove off in the street so that we can hold hands skin to skin.
(15) So we have the return of Bolly bezzies Edwina and Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie ; Tina Fey and Margot Robbie bonding beneath the bombs in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot ; Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny cackling happily in Love & Friendship , Greta Gerwig snuggling with one-time love-rival Julianne Moore in Maggie’s Plan ; Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell swapping horror stories in Bad Moms , and Bell (again) enjoying a slow-burn buddy-up with Melissa McCarthy (again) in The Boss .
(16) There are some suggesting that David Cameron would be smart, on Leveson Day, to give the press a little time to try to agree a firm package of reforms – and then wait and see if editors and proprietors can snuggle up and agree.
(17) Last year Jackson regifted a " Snuggle Wrap " wearable fleece blanket which she describes as "completely hideous: She said: "It was electric blue polyester and crackled when you moved, with a pocket for the TV remote control.
(18) Snuggled down beneath the thickly wooded southern shores of Coniston Water, the isle hides itself from prying eyes beneath its own cloak of trees and thus is a wonderful place to become a child again and imagine yourself into a daring escapade.
(19) Many of us remember snuggling up on the carpet, watching our teacher’s animated face as they put on funny voices and brought a story to life.
(20) Oh, you can just imagine her and Barry O together, exuding droll wit as they snuggle up by the fire in the White House den, wondering how to deal with the latest insurgency from their pesky kids that they just love so goddamn much.