croodle
croodle verb: to cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
Verb (1)
croodle (third-person singular simple present croodles, present participle croodling, simple past and past participle croodled)
- To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
- Far ben thy dark green plantin's shade
The cushat croodles am'rouslya. 1810, Robert Tannahill, The Wood O' Craigie Lea - Oh! that I had wings-not as a dove , to fly home to its nest and croodle there1858 January, Charles Kingsley, “My Winter-Garden”, in Frasers Magazine
- Far ben thy dark green plantin's shade
- To fawn or coax.
- Synonyms:
- butter up, cajole, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle, blandander, blandish, sweeten, fast-talk, canoodle
Verb (2)
croodle (third-person singular simple present croodles, present participle croodling, simple past and past participle croodled)
- To make a cooing sound.
- Too dark to see well, but judge from movements of old bird's head and croodling noise.1899, Zoologist
- Do pigeons croodle, or only doves?2017, Thomas Rohrer, Worms Drowning in the Rain
Noun
croodle (plural croodles)
- A bird's coo, especially that of a dove.
- [A]nd no sound falls on my ears, except the distant roar of a passing train, the song of linnets, and croodle of turtle-dove and cushat.1888, Gordon Stables, In Touch with Nature: Tales and Sketches from the Life, page 46
- [A] third-storey apartment under the eaves loud with the croodles and canoodling of amorous pigeons.1997, Aidan Higgins, Flotsam and Jetsam, page 265
Synonyms of croodle
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- coax
- collogue
- fleech
- honey around
- soft-sawder
- soft-soap
- stroke
- twist
- apple-polish
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brownnose
- dickride
- duchess
- fawn
- fawn over
- fellate
- flannel
- kiss someone's ass
- kiss someone's ring
- kiss up
- kowtow
- lick someone's ass
- lick someone's balls
- overflatter
- overpraise
- overrate
- suck up
- toady
- blandander
Forms of croodle
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | croodles |
| present participle | croodling |
| past participle | croodled |
| past | croodled |
| Noun | |
| plural | croodles |
Origin of croodle
Compare cruddle, crudle.
Onomatopoeic "croo" + -le.
Questions about croodle
- What does croodle mean?
- Croodle means to cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
- What part of speech is croodle?
- Croodle can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of croodle?
- The past tense of croodle is croodled.
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