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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cuddly
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
soft/cuddly toyBritish English (= a toy that looks like an animal and is covered in fur)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a cute and cuddly rabbit
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But what could it be if it was warm and cuddly and baby shit yellow?
▪ During other question-and-answer sessions, I had nailed down that whatever it was was cuddly.
▪ He was almost cuddly, talking about how he plays football with his old mates and helps fix their go-karts.
▪ The cuddly robot may be a major route through which we communicate with the world of information.
▪ The growth of virtual friends will match that of cuddly pets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cuddly

cuddlesome \cuddlesome\ cuddly \cuddly\adj. inviting cuddling or hugging; as, a cuddlesome baby.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cuddly

1863, from cuddle + -y (2).

Wiktionary
cuddly

a. suitable for cuddling, designed to be cuddled.

WordNet
cuddly

adj. inviting cuddling or hugging; "a cuddlesome baby"; "a cuddly teddybear" [syn: cuddlesome]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "cuddly".

The abrasive warrior woman was about as warm and cuddly as a porcupine, and just as touchy.

Elda did her bit by following Derk, too, looking sweet and golden and cuddly.

Sad to say, that was where the similarity ended because, unlike Pooh Bear, there was nothing endearing or cuddly about Punky Balog.

Link in dismay: The ingenuity of the tobacco hornworm is all well and good, but does it make Miss Ixen feel warm and cuddly?

The ones started for the supply room to get their rags and bars of sandsoap in the yellow wrappers labelled Eon Ami under the picture of the cuddly little fluffy chick that always outraged all of them with an unspeakable affront because as soldiers their lives had become such a close alliance with the grit of sandsoap.

The Cuddly had ventured too close to a prowling insect-thing and had had second thoughts about approaching it.

His pretty, sleepy twins were like cuddly rabbits in fuzzy pajamas with feet.

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.

In excess of two hundred dedicated individuals are employed and housed on the estate, as well as a variety of less dedicated but much appreciated and much cuddlier animals of many kinds.

The Japanese, who used to be just about the fiercest people on earth, have become infatuated with cuddly adorable cartoon characters.

The cuddly toy had been given to Willie, he remembered, as a forcible peace offering after Willie had poked his tongue out at Zanny and she had retaliated by jabbing her finger in his eye.

Corll, it emerged, was a morbidly over-sensitive mother’s boy who had never really grown up - one recent photograph showed him holding a cuddly toy.

And sometimes it worked the other way: our poison-fanged Beam's beast looked like a cuddly toy.

A cuddly toy with a stitched-on smile lay on the floor beside the bed.

It reminded me, I thought whimsically, of a cuddly toy I had owned long ago in the dreams or the play of my childhood.