different between guddle vs cuddle

English

Etymology

From Scots guddle, imitative of the splashing of water, and modelled after words like muddle and puddle, perhaps influenced by Scots gutter (“to spatter with mud”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Scotland) IPA^(key): /???d(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d(?)l/, [???-]
• Rhymes: -?d?l
• Hyphenation: gud?dle

Verb

guddle (third-person singular simple present guddles, present participle guddling, simple past and past participle guddled)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland, fishing) To catch (fish) with the hands, especially by groping at the bank of a stream or under stones.

   Synonym: (usually of large catfish) noodle

Derived terms

• guddler
• guddling (noun)

Translations

References

Further reading

• fishing techniques on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “guddle, v.²”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2019
• “guddle, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Scots

Etymology

Unknown, but see etymology of English section.

Verb

guddle

1. To catch fish with the hands, especially by groping under stones or at the banks of a stream.
2. To dabble (as a duck).
3. To play in the gutters, mud or puddles.
4. To do work of a dirty or greasy nature.

Noun

guddle (plural guddles)

1. mess, muddle

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.

Translations

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.

Derived terms

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Anagrams

• dulced