cuddle buddy

plural cuddle buddies

1. informalA platonic friend who frequently cuddles another friend.

   Carla isn't dating John. She's just his cuddle buddy.

present singular third person cuddle buddies · participle present cuddle buddying · participle past cuddle buddied · past cuddle buddied

1. ambitransitiveinformalrareTo be or become cuddle buddies with (someone).

   Lmfao please Laolu_ who cuddle buddied you abeg?

   2012 June 26, @warmpotato77, Twitter (post)

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   Here are a couple of her [Martha Reardon’s] more delightful gems … and a one-a and a two-a: CUDDLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER [on the Southeast Expressway] […] Aggressive Commuter’s Verses / I refuse to cuddle buddy, / That’s my line! / I prefer to drive myself, / And take my time! Just // Give me Jess Cain in the mornings, / Kev’n O’Keefe for traffic warnings, / In the jams, / I’ll be a horn-king / All the time!

   1977 March 24, Eric Swider, “A Regional Economy: South Shore Problems in Song and Verse”, in Henry W. Bosworth, Jr., editor, The Quincy Sun, volume 9, number 27, Quincy, Mass.: Quincy Sun Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 13

   > The 'toss-up' scenario is Jun vs. Alison - I really don't have a feel > for how that one will go... > Yeah, that's harder though I'm guessing Jun will get more votes for doing some active/risky floating/playing without earning a rep as much as Ali...let's see though... […] Nathan - Ali (he's *still* talking about cuddle-buddying in the loser house!)

   2003 September 4, celevarts, “Coming strategy”, in alt.tv.big-brother (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Apr 2026

   We grew to be homies. A month into freshman year she was already my closest friend on campus. But I wanted more than a friendship, figuring that attaching occasional sex to our easy compatibility and already frequent cuddle-buddying would be the optimal romantic relationship.

   2019 March 26, Damon Young, “Bomb-Ass Poetry”, in What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, [New York, N.Y.]: Ecco, →ISBN

   He cuddle buddied him and put him to sleep with his pillow fists as wilder put it.

   2020 February 23, @roddersukdg, Twitter (post)

   I mean … look at them. All cuddle buddied up on a cold and starry night. Feeding one another so adorably at the sushi restaurant. Making little love tap marks on one another’s canvas while enjoying date night at the Paint and Sip. Who cares how the painting looked? They themselves were the perfect picture.

   2020 April 1, LeAnzar Stockley, “Introduction – #RelationshipGoals”, in Relationship Ready: Moving from #RelationshipGoals to a Wise Foundation for Relational Greatness, →ISBN