Snuggling

Definition: Snuggling

Snuggling

Noun

1. Affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs).

Date "snuggling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Snuggling

Synonyms: caressing (n), cuddling (n), fondling (n), hugging (n), kissing (n), necking (n), petting (n), smooching (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Snuggling

Etymologies containing "snuggling": snuggle. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Snuggling

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Usage Frequency: Snuggling

"Snuggling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.14% of the time. "Snuggling" is used about 35 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)	97.14%	34	59,261
Noun (proper)	2.86%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	35	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snuggling

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
snuggling	13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Snuggling

Language		Translations for "snuggling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		kuschelnd (nestling). (various references)

Pig Latin		ugglingsnay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Snuggling

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-g-g-i-l-n-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: slugging, snugging.
	-2 letters: lugging, lunging, unsling.
	-3 letters: gluing, luging, lungis, sluing.
	-4 letters: glugs, iglus, lings, linns, lungi, lungs, sling, slung, suing, using.
	-5 letters: gigs, gins, glug, gnus, guls, guns, iglu, inns, ling, linn, lins, lugs, lung, nils, nuns, sign, sing, slug, snug, sung, sunn.
	Words containing the letters "g-g-g-i-l-n-n-s-u"
	+2 letters: gunslinging.
	+3 letters: gunslingings.
	+4 letters: agglutinogens, antismuggling.
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