hugger
/ˈhʌɡə/US/ˈhʌɡɚ/
hugger noun: one who hugs or embraces.
Noun
hugger (plural huggers)
- One who hugs or embraces.
- When the pub downstairs closed, a contingent of straight couples ranging in age from 16 to 60 arrived to dance, though they were still safely outnumbered by same-sex huggers and smoochers.1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 16
- Jenny hadn’t been a natural hugger, but she’d been a smiler, a handholder.2012, Joy Dettman, Wind in the Wires, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 28
- A ceiling fan whose blades are close to the ceiling.
Verb
hugger (third-person singular simple present huggers, present participle huggering, simple past and past participle huggered)
hugger meaning in Urdu
hugger in Urdu
- بھینچنے والا
Forms of hugger
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | huggers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | huggers |
| present participle | huggering |
| past participle | huggered |
| past | huggered |
Origin of hugger
From hug + -er.
Words formed from hugger
Phrases with hugger
Words that rhyme with hugger
Questions about hugger
- What does hugger mean?
- Hugger means one who hugs or embraces.
- What is hugger in Urdu?
- Hugger in Urdu is بھینچنے والا. See Hugger meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is hugger?
- Hugger can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce hugger?
- Hugger is pronounced /ˈhʌɡɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of hugger?
- The plural of hugger is huggers.
Words near hugger in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hugger (page history and authors); hugger (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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