different between fuddle vs cuddle

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Dutch vod (“soft”), German dialect fuddeln (“to swindle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?d?l/
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Verb

fuddle (third-person singular simple present fuddles, present participle fuddling, simple past and past participle fuddled)

1. (transitive) To confuse or befuddle.
2. (transitive) To intoxicate.
3. (intransitive) To become intoxicated; to get drunk.

Derived terms

• (to confuse): fuddlesome (“confusing”)
• (to become intoxicated): fuddlecap, fuddler (“drunkard”), fuddling (“intoxication”)

Translations

Noun

fuddle (countable and uncountable, plural fuddles)

1. Intoxication.
2. (uncountable) Intoxicating drink; liquor.
3. Muddle, confusion.
4. (Britain, dialect, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire) A party or picnic where attendees bring food and wine; a kind of potluck.

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English

Etymology

Origin uncertain, but probably from a frequentative form of Middle English *cudden, cuththen, keththen (“to embrace”), a variant of cuthen, kuthen, kithen (“to be familiar with, make known”), from Middle English cuth, couth (“known, familiar”), equivalent to couth +? -le. Cognate with Middle Dutch kudden (“to come together, flock together”). More at couth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?d.l?/
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Noun

cuddle (plural cuddles)

1. A snuggle; an affectionate embrace, often given to family members and close friends.

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Verb

cuddle (third-person singular simple present cuddles, present participle cuddling, simple past and past participle cuddled)

1. (intransitive) To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly.

   The young lovers cuddled on the couch.

2. (transitive) To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.

   She cuddled the infant before bedtime.

   I'm cold; can you roll over here and cuddle me, honey?

3. To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
   • 1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove

     She cuddles low behind the brake; / Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly.

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Anagrams

• dulced