hugger

H4U1G2G2E1R1
US/ˈhʌɡɚ/UK/ˈhʌɡə/

noun

One who hugs or embraces.

Less commonScrabble 11
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounhugger (plural huggers)

plural huggers

  1. One who hugs or embraces.

    Jenny hadn’t been a natural hugger, but she’d been a smiler, a handholder.

    2012, Joy Dettman, Wind in the Wires, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 28
    1 more example

    When the pub downstairs closed, a contingent of straight couples ranging in age from 16 to 60 arrived to dance, though they were still safely outnumbered by same-sex huggers and smoochers.

    1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 16
  2. A ceiling fan whose blades are close to the ceiling.
verbhugger (third-person singular simple present huggers, present participle huggering, simple past and past participle huggered)

present singular third person huggers · participle present huggering · participle past huggered · past huggered

  1. obsoleteTo conceal; to lurk in ambush.

    Such a one they saw there lyrkinge and huggeringe two houres before.

    1567, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors

Origin

From hug + -er.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with hugger

debuggersluggermuggerDuggerpluggerruggersnuggerdrubberdruggergive a buggergluggerjuggerlaggarpuggershruggerugger
All rhymes →
Cite this entry
APA

hugger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hugger

MLA

“hugger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hugger. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hugger,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hugger.

Source: hugger on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.