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Show affection, in a way
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nuzzle
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The kitten nuzzled her chin. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Also mares can be ticklish round the udder and resent the foal nuzzling around that area. ▪ Girls did not come up to him and nuzzle him. ▪ He murmured small endearments ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (qualifier: of animals, lovers, etc) To touch someone or something with the nose. 2 (context obsolete English) To nurse; to foster; to bring up. 3 (context obsolete English) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noursle \Nour"sle\, v. t. [Freq., fr. OE. nourse. See Nurse .] To nurse; to rear; to bring up. [Obs.] [Written also nosel , nousel , nousle , nowsle , nusle , nuzzle , etc.] She noursled him till years he raught. --Spenser.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags" [syn: cuddle , snuggle , nestle , nest , draw close ] rub noses [syn: nose ] dig out with the snout; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "to bring the nose to the ground," back-formation from noselyng "on the nose, prostrate," frequentative of nose (v.); meaning "burrow with the nose" is first attested 1520s; that of "lie snug" is from 1590s, influenced by nestle , or by nursle ...
Usage examples of nuzzle.
The brown nipples, surrounded by warm tan areoles, were pebbled to hard nubs -- the kind a man would nuzzle and suck into his mouth.
The horse swiveled a bored eye at Gareth, shook its neck, then nuzzled Argot, hoping for an apple.
We walked out into Krakatoa Dome, into the throbbing of the pump rooms and the air circulators, past the locks where a sleek cargo sub-sea liner was nuzzling into the edenite pressure chamber.
Rita Clay Estrada Dismissing Parris, he walked to Patricia, leaned over, and nuzzled her cheek.
Somewhere toward the east, nuzzled by the Suwannee River, was Gilchrist County, which in scraggly ten-acre parcels Eugenie Fonda and Boyd Shreave had hawked over the phone to all those innocent saps.
The great beasts came and rubbed against the girl and nuzzled her hands, while Gamba sat frozen with terror.
The Hinny came and nuzzled me, and I was ashamed for that I had let her fight while I did naught.
Then Kapu, as if he understood what Miyax wanted, swept up to Jello and nuzzled his mouth.
Unintentionally Layne nuzzled against his jaw, and she heard him draw in a deep, ragged breath.
The woman could have been no more than a year or two older than Jenna, with a child nuzzling at her breast under the red-dyed leine of mourning, and a boy that might have been three years old at her side.
But the horse nuzzled at him with its nose and pawed him gently with a hoof till he had to get up.
Pierre through the drowning jungle where ants fled like refugees, and wild pigs splashed and grunted, where butterflies made clouds of colour, and pium flies descended in searing fogs, while the snouts of caymans nuzzled the waves of their wake.
Her abductor, whose supposedly loving arm hugged her shoulders while the gun nuzzled her rib cage beneath the sheltering sarape, soon seemed to be on the easiest of terms with the entire family.
At the same time, Collin felt -- smelled -- Tiego nuzzling at his throat.
Kon stayed close to Toki, nuzzling his hand from time to time, begging, I dare say, never to go to sea again.