What's the difference between snug and snuggle?

Snug


Definition:

  • (superl.) Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
  • (superl.) Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
  • (superl.) Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.
  • (n.) Same as Lug, n., 3.
  • (v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.
  • (v. t.) To place snugly.
  • (v. t.) To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If you make a small diagonal snip in each corner of the paper, it will help fit the paper snugly into the corners of the tin.
  • (2) The backpack was held snugly in place by shoulder and body straps.
  • (3) They protect against (most) rain, and keep your toes snug.
  • (4) The netropsin molecule displaces the spine of hydration and fits snugly within the minor groove in the A-A-T-T center.
  • (5) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
  • (6) Discovery of antiviral agents of this type will, therefore, depend on designing compounds that can enter and fit snugly into the hydrophobic pocket of a particular viral capsid protein.
  • (7) Only gut, polyglycolic acid, and polydioxanone granny knots were as secure as square knots; no loosely tied (500 g tension) asymmetric square knots were as secure as snug square knots, and only polydioxanone and polypropylene loose square knots were as secure as snug square knots.
  • (8) The fryingpan should be large enough to hold the pork and rhubarb fairly snugly.
  • (9) The fibrous and lipomatous tissue snugly surrounds the fascicles and cannot be separated from them without damaging them, even if the finest microsurgical techniques are used.
  • (10) In these a portion of the superior surface of S1 is removed in such a way that the body of S1 fits snugly against the under surface of the repositioned body of L5.
  • (11) The buttons are more flush against its surface, the twin sticks fit more snugly against the player's thumbs and both the shoulder buttons and the D-pad respond to the slightest pressure.
  • (12) The wheels on our bikes had barely stopped turning by the time we'd drained the first pint of Guinness in front of a log fire in one of its many snug alcoves.
  • (13) Certainly, many of his acting projects fit snugly with his social views, if not overtly.
  • (14) The anticodon stem is extended by two non-Watson-Crick base pairs, leaving the three anti-codon bases unpaired and splayed out to bind snugly into three separate complementary pockets in the protein.
  • (15) In fact, he's more like the sort of fellow you'd find in the snug of a West Country pub.
  • (16) Each helmet is designed to fit snugly against the prominent aspects of the infants' cranium and to be loose fitting where the head is shallow.
  • (17) "There's a lady in the snug who wants to give you a thousand pounds."
  • (18) He liked Somerset because it was "less cleaned-up" than the home counties: as Whitfield writes, he had a hatred for "English gentility … 'snug cottages with roses around the door'".
  • (19) He shows me a large, hard, hollow ball of mud with a snug entrance hole carved into it.
  • (20) A small hole is drilled in the distal shaft to allow the placement of a spiral wire, allowing a snug fit even in older, well used electrosurgical handles.

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.