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語源

First attested in 1684. snug +‎ -le (frequentative suffix); spelt with doubled ‘g’ to clarify pronunciation.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsnʌ.ɡəl/
• 韻: -ʌɡəl

名詞

snuggle (plural snuggles)

1. An affectionate hug.

   Let's have a snuggle on the sofa.

2. The final remnant left in a liquor bottle.

同意語

• (hug): cuddle
• (final remnant in bottle): sip

動詞

snuggle (third-person singular simple present snuggles, present participle snuggling, simple past and past participle snuggled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To lie close to another person or thing, hugging or being cosy.

   Synonyms: cuddle, nestle

   My girlfriend and I love to snuggle.

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

   The surrounding buildings snuggled each other.

   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:

     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.

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

     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; […] .

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

   Synonym: (obsolete except UK, dialectal) snudge

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

   The pet dog snuggles into its new bed.

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