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Definition: Hugging |
HuggingNoun1. Affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hugging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | If you dream of hugging, you will be disappointed in love affairs and in business. For a woman to dream of hugging a man, she will accept advances of a doubtful character from men. For a married woman to hug others than her husband, she will endanger her honor in accepting attentions from others in her husband's absence. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Physical intimacy in increasing degree is:Sexual behavior involves physical intimacy. A personal relationship that does not involve sexual behavior, e.g. friendship, may involve physical intimacy. This varies greatly. In western culture it is often more among female than among male friends; the latter may want to avoid associations with homosexuality. In other cultures, such as Arab culture, men may hold hands with no implication of homosexuality.
- physical closeness
- touching, especially tenderly, e.g.
- holding hands
- hugging: gently enclosing the arms around the trunk of each other
- sitting or lying against each other
- caressing: gently stroking body parts or hair with a hand
- cuddling
- back rub and massage
- kissing
- touching intimate parts
- sexual penetration
A man and a woman who are friends may avoid physical intimacy to avoid associations with sexuality (for example if one or both have a relationship with someone else).
Physical closeness may also be unvoluntary, as in a crowded train or elevator.
An intermediate form of voluntariness is when one goes to a crowded place for entertainment: a bar, disco, pop concert, street festival, etc.
International Hug Day is on 4 December.
See also: Kruibeke, Jealousy
Physical intimacy between a human and an animal may involve caressing, hugging and playing.
Also a person, especially a child, may caress and hug a teddy bear or doll. There are also sex dolls, as a surrogate for a person.
Other kinds of intimacy are:
- emotional intimacy: telling about emotions, knowing and feeling what the other feels
- financial unity, sharing property, community-property
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Physical intimacy."
Synonyms: HuggingSynonyms: caressing (n), cuddling (n), fondling (n), kissing (n), necking (n), petting (n), smooching (n), snuggling (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hugging |
| English words defined with "hugging": brainish ♦ cuddlesome, cuddly ♦ hotheaded ♦ impetuous, impulsive ♦ madcap ♦ tearaway. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hugging": Hug. (references) |
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Screenplays | There was a lot of kissing and hugging and a lot of rubbing, and I kind of finished before I was supposed to. You have to be a guy to understand that (The Other Sister; writing credit: Alexandra Rose; Blair Richwood) Daddy has a magazine with naked ladies hugging. (The Oblongs...; writing credit: Ana Katz) Am too, your standing in the bushes hugging a bent box of chocolates, and I'm. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I really don't like dancing because it's nothing but hugging set to music (Here Come the Co-eds; writing credit: John Grant; Edmund L. Hartmann) Are you hugging the door right now (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | Now here come all the hugging (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) Hugging like a monkey see (Wishing Well (A Tone Poem); performing artist: Terence Trent D'arby) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Kristy 'n me...We're hugging for the health of it! Cybill. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Hugging Sculpture" by Josiah Gordon Commentary: "Hugging sculpture in a studio setting. I gave this to my girlfriend as an anniversary gift a few years back." | "Hugging the Dog" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A man hugs his dog while it sleeps on the floor. Visit http://www.qr5.com ." |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Pa sat near by, hugging his knees |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Hugging an infected person. (references) | |
Hugging, touching, holding, and cuddling may become more important, while sexual intercourse may become less important. (references) | ||
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| "Hugging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 99.15% of the time. "Hugging" is used about 235 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 99.15% | 233 | 19,663 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.85% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 235 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "hugging": hugging and kissing. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "hugging": body-hugging, figure-hugging, hip-hugging. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hugging | 72 | friend hugging | 3 |
girl hugging | 11 | family hugging | 3 |
bear hugging | 10 | clipart hugging | 3 |
hugging picture | 9 | hugging kissing | 3 |
couple hugging | 9 | hugging sexy | 3 |
hugging saint | 8 | child hugging | 3 |
hugging man | 6 | hugging lesbian | 2 |
hugging nude | 6 | bear hugging teddy | 2 |
hugging people | 6 | guy hugging | 2 |
hugging people picture | 5 | gay hugging | 2 |
hugging man woman | 5 | gay hugging man | 2 |
boy hugging | 5 | butt hugging jean | 2 |
hugging the tree | 4 | cartoon hugging | 2 |
art clip hugging | 3 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "hugging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | عناق (caress, clasp, conversion, cuddle, embracing, grasp, hug, squeeze), إحتضان (accolade, embracing, hug, sit). (various references) | |
Chinese | 拥抱 (Embrace, Embraced, Embracing, hug, Hugged, HUGS). (various references) | |
Finnish | halailu (necking). (various references) | |
French | étreinte (hug). (various references) | |
German | umarmend (embracing), liebkosend (caressing, fondling, snugglind). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חבוק (attached, caressing, clasp, embrace, embraced, embracing, hug), התחבקות (caressing, embracing), גפוף (caressing, embracing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ragaszkodás (adherence, affection, attach, attachment, clinging, fidelity, tenacity), ölelgetés (huggery). (various references) | |
Korean | 껴안음. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ugginghay.(various references) | |
Turkish | sarılma (clasp, convolution, cuddle, cuddling, embrace, grapple, hug, twine), kucaklama (caress, clasp, cuddle, embrace, embracing, hug, squeeze). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "hugging": chugging. (additional references) | |
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"Hugging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haggin, Higging, hoging, Huaguang, huggings, Quiggin, thugging, ugging. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hugging" (pronounced hu"ging) |
| 4 | -u" g i ng | bugging, chugging, debugging, drugging, lugging, mugging, plugging, shrugging, slugging, snugging, tugging. |
| 3 | -g i ng | bagging, begging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, cataloging, cataloguing, clogging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, dragging, fatiguing, flagging, flogging, gigging, hogging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, leapfrogging, legging, logging, nagging, pegging, plaguing, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, slogging, snagging, tagging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-g-h-i-n-u" | |
-3 letters: hung, nigh. | |
-4 letters: ghi, gig, gin, gnu, gun, hin, hug, hun, ugh. | |
-5 letters: hi, in, nu, uh, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-g-h-i-n-u" | |
+1 letter: chugging. | |
+2 letters: shrugging. | |
+3 letters: humbugging. | |
+4 letters: gunfighting. | |
+5 letters: chugalugging. | |
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