Crossword clues for canoodle
canoodle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to indulge in caresses and fondling endearments" [OED], by 1850s, said to be U.S. slang, of uncertain origin. The earliest known sources are British, but they tend to identify the word as American. In the 1830s it seems to have been in use in Britain in a sense of "cheat" or "overpower." Related: Canoodled; canoodling.
Wiktionary
n. A cuddle, hug, or caress vb. 1 To caress, touch up, pet or make love 2 To persuade or cajole
WordNet
v. slang; fondle or pet affectionately
Usage examples of "canoodle".
Hart had a reputation as a womanizer, a reputation that had been confirmed when he had been caught on a yacht canoodling with a bikini-clad girl who was in no way his wife.
A couple of tables away, two small grey-skinned figures with large bald heads and big black eyes are canoodling over a shared bloodshake.
The flowers, the fantastic flowerswatch them as they hobnob and canoodle in the haze!
He was up as straight as a ramrod for Butch's re-entry, and over coffee and cake they snogged and canoodled like a couple of sweaty college kids no, not like that, more like a couple of actors in the pre-credits sequence of an adult movie.
Two and a half months after Gina moved down to London (she was surprisingly well organized and unterrified, and without his seeming to do much about it she soon had a tube-map and a duplicate of his door key and a diary/address book and a job andno, she insisteda studio flat nice and near to his place with white curtains and a white sofa that at midnight she transformed into an aromatic bed infested with embroidered pillows and cuddly animals where he too was cuddled and canoodled and regularly rendered speechless by her ultrametropolitan diligence and ingenuity on top of all the primitive ardor), Richard left her and went back to Dominique-Louise, to his bulimic vamp, who screamed at him all night long and never got the curse.
We went to Dartmouth's Winter Carnival together and canoodled afterward in the icy moonlight under a bearskin rug in Denis's antique sleigh over by Occam Pond, nearly freezing our silly petards off.
It rained all day, which didn't matter as we were engaged indoors in the Athenaeum dining room, shooting the scene where Cibber's suspicions of his wife's canoodling jelled into inescapable certainty.