hugglev.
/ˈhʌɡ(ə)l/ Now dialect.
To hug.
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the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)]
clipc950
freeOE
beclipc1000
windc1175
fang?c1200
yokec1275
umgripea1300
to take in (also into, on) one's armsc1300
umbefold14..
collc1320
lapc1350
bracec1375
embracec1386
clapa1400
folda1400
halsea1400
umbeclapa1400
accollc1400
fathomc1400
halchc1400
haspc1400
hoderc1440
plighta1450
plet?a1500
cuddlec1520
complect1523
umbfoldc1540
clasp1549
culla1564
cully1576
huggle1583
embosom1590
wrap1594
collya1600
cling1607
bosom1608
grasp1609
comply1648
huddlea1650
smuggle1679
inarm1713
snuggle1775
cwtch1965
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Hv So he haue his pretie pussie to huggle withall, it forceth not.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 221 She taketh it into her armes, she hugleth it in her bosome, and kisseth it.
1675 H. Teonge Diary (1825) 10 The women..huggling the water-men about the necks.
1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 513 Putting out his arms to huggle the old lady round the neck.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Huggle, to hug, embrace.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs.
Derivatives
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > other alcoholic drinks > [noun] > others
stitch-broth1635
Cherellya1640
rug1653
steel-nose1654
pope's-milka1661
Northdown1670
purl royal1675
sweetsa1679
forty-ninea1713
huggle-my-buff1756
slug1756
gunpowder1765
guarapo1772
peachy1781
all nations1785
anti-fogmatic1789
soma1827
ava1831
native1832
tap1832
stone fence1844
slap-bang1845
Angostura1856
jake1910
tepache1926
pruno1936
muratina1968
makkoli1970
alcopop1996
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans IV. 79 Dry gin..in every dose of huggle-my-buff, or hot-pot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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