snuggle up

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

1. intransitiveTo lie or sit in a comfortable, relaxed position, holding someone or something else.

   She snuggled up with her boyfriend.

   2 more examples

   I was snuggling up in bed with my blanket.

   Gingernut was small and ginger too, though of course he didn’t wear braces. That smallness and gingerness was probably, deep down, why Zoe chose him out of the dozens of little balls of fluff snuggled up together behind the glass at the pet shop.

   2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

   Synonyms: cuddle up, ensconce