snuggle
/ˈsnʌ.ɡəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An affectionate hug.
Example Sentences
- "Let's have a snuggle on the sofa."
- "My girlfriend and I love to snuggle."
- "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."
- "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; […]."
Etymology
Etymology tree English snug Proto-Germanic *-lōną Old English -lian Middle English -len English -le English snuggle From snug + -le (frequentative suffix).