different between snuggle vs smuggle

English

Etymology

First attested in 1687. snug +? -le (frequentative suffix); spelt with doubled ‘g’ to clarify pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sn???l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Noun

snuggle (plural snuggles)

1. An affectionate hug.
2. The final remnant left in a liquor bottle.

Synonyms

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

Verb

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.

   Sometimes my girlfriend and I snuggle.

   The surrounding buildings snuggled each other.

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

   • 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.

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

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

   The pet dog snuggles into its new bed.

Synonyms

• cuddle

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Derived terms

English

Alternative forms

• smuckle (dialectal)

Etymology

From earlier smuckle, either from Dutch smokkelen (“to smuggle”), a frequentative form of Middle Dutch sm?ken (“to act secretly, be sneaky”), or from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German smuggeln. The Dutch and Low German words are both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *smeugan? (“to creep; slip through or into”), from Proto-Indo-European *smewk-, *smewg- (“to slip, glide; be slimy”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smukkeln (“to move insidiously, smuggle”), West Frisian smokkelje (“to smuggle”), German schmuggeln (“to smuggle”), Danish smugle (“to smuggle”), Swedish smuggla (“to smuggle”). Related also to Icelandic smjúga (“to creep, penetrate”), Swedish smyga (“to sneak, slip, crawl, lurk, steal”), German schmiegen (“to nestle, wrap, snuggle”), Old English sm?ogan, sm?gan (“to creep, crawl, move gradually, penetrate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sm???l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Verb

smuggle (third-person singular simple present smuggles, present participle smuggling, simple past and past participle smuggled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
2. (transitive) To bring in surreptitiously
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]

     While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To fondle or cuddle.
4. (slang) To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.

Derived terms

• smuggling
• smuggler

Translations

Anagrams

• Muggles, muggles