Snuggle
Sponsored by Darren SuggCame first in group 919 in round 1 with 315 votesbeat Porcupine on 244 votesbeat Bandage on 36 votesbeat Bound on 29 votes
Came first in group 230 in round 2 with 467 votesbeat Wildebeest on 236 votesbeat Dexterity on 142 votesbeat Hue on 123 votes
Won in group 115 in round 3 with 565 votesbeat Mongoose on 296 votes
Won in group 58 in round 4 with 610 votesbeat Whim on 328 votes
Won in group 29 in round 5 with 688 votesbeat Pebble on 464 votes
Won in group 15 in round 6 with 656 votesbeat Besmirch on 434 votes
Lost in group 8 in round 7 with 583 votesbeaten by Higgledy-piggledy on 777 votes
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First attested in 1687. snug + -le (frequentative suffix); spelt with doubled ‘g’ to clarify pronunciation.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
snuggle (plural snuggles)
- An affectionate hug.
- Let's have a snuggle on the sofa.
- The final remnant left in a liquor bottle.
Synonyms[edit]
Verb[edit]
snuggle (third-person singular simple present snuggles, present participle snuggling, simple past and past participle snuggled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To lie close to another person or thing, hugging or being cosy.
- Sometimes my girlfriend and I snuggle.
- The surrounding buildings snuggled each other.
- The last drop of jager snuggled the corner of the pint.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
- And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.
- 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
- I certainly was not prepared for the cosy nestling valleys that snuggled against the shoulders of the hills; a land where the graystone cottages and farmsteads still prevailed, but where they had taken on something of the softness of their kind in Gloucester and the Cotswolds, and seemed almost like growths of the soil; […] .
- To move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cosy position.
- Tired but satisfied, the children snuggled into their sleeping bags.
- The pet dog snuggles into its new bed.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to lie close to another person or thing, hugging or being cosy
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to move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cosy position
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Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from the noun or verb snuggle