snuggle

plural snuggles

1. An affectionate hug.

   Let's have a snuggle on the sofa.

   Synonyms: cuddle

2. The final remnant left in a liquor bottle.

   Synonyms: sip

present singular third person snuggles · participle present snuggling · participle past snuggled · past snuggled

1. intransitivetransitiveTo lie close to another person or thing, hugging or being cosy.

   My girlfriend and I love to snuggle.

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   The last drop of jager snuggled the corner of the pint.

   The surrounding buildings snuggled each other.

   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.

   1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

   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; […].

   1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12

   Synonyms: cuddle, nestle

2. To move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cosy position.

   The pet dog snuggles into its new bed.

   1 more example

   Tired but satisfied, the children snuggled into their sleeping bags.

   Synonyms: snudge