firkytoodle

present singular third person firkytoodles · participle present firkytoodling · participle past firkytoodled · past firkytoodled

1. obsoleteTo cuddle or fondle amorously.

   So we frolicked all day and firkytoodled all night.

   1983, Joanna Dessau, Lord of the Ladies, page 73

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   All the same, there's no way I can tell my story without describing the sin of firkytoodling, as sexual play was known in the sixteenth century.

   1993, Benoîte Groult, Salt on Our Skin, page 6

   Amorous couples have “firkytoodled” for years, and “ribs” (wives) have given “curtain lectures” (chastisements issued to world—weary husbands at bedtime) for millennia.

   2013, Lesley M. M. Blume, Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition