Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - cuddle
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Cuddle
cuddle
(cuddles, cuddling, cuddled) If you cuddle someone, you put your arms round them and hold them close as a way of showing your affection. He cuddled the newborn girl... They used to kiss and cuddle in front of everyone. = hug V-RECIP: V n (non-recip), pl-n V • Cuddle is also a noun. Give her a cuddle. = hug N-COUNT
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I. verb (~d; cuddling) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1520 transitive verb to hold close for warmth or comfort or in affection intransitive verb to lie close or snug ; nestle, snuggle • ~r noun II. noun Date: 1825 a close embrace ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 tr. hug, embrace, fondle. 2 intr. nestle together, lie close and snug. --n. a prolonged and fond hug. Derivatives cuddlesome adj. Etymology: 16th c.: perh. f. dial. couth snug ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. объятие 2. прижимать к себе, крепко обнимать to cuddle a baby in one's arms —- прижать ребенка к себе 3. обниматься Jane and John were cuddling in the back row of the cinema —- Джейн и Джон сидели обнявшись в последнем ряду кинотеатра 4. прижиматься друг к другу the children cuddled up under the blanket —- дети жались друг к другу под одеялом 5. свернуться калачиком в постели ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun объятия 2. v. 1) прижимать к себе; обнимать 2) прижиматься (друг к другу; часто cuddle up, cuddle together) Stop crying, child, and come and cuddle up to me. 3) свернуться калачиком Syn: see caress ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~1 v to hold someone or something very close to you with your arms around them, especially to show that you love them (Dawn and her boyfriend were cuddling on the sofa.) cuddle up phr v to lie or sit very close to someone or something + to/together (The children cuddled up to each other for warmth.) ~2 n an act of cuddling someone (give sb a cuddle) (Come over here and let me give you a cuddle.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1520, probably a variant of obs. cull, coll "to embrace" (see collar), or perhaps M.E. *couthelen, from couth "known," hence "comfortable with." The word has a spotty early history, and it seems to have been a nursery word at first. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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