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huggling

huggling is the present participle and gerund of huggle.

Meaning of huggle

Verb

huggle (third-person singular simple present huggles, present participle huggling, simple past and past participle huggled)

  1. (Internet, childish) To hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.
  2. (Internet) To hug and cuddle.
  3. (archaic) To huddle.
    • Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, e.g. in William Allingham, The ballad book: a selection of the choicest British ballads, Sever and Francis, 1865, p. 269.
      Lie still, lie still, thou little Musgrave, / And huggle me from the cold; / 'tis nothing but a shepherds boy, / A-driving his sheep to fold.

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Questions about huggling

What is huggling the present participle and gerund of?
Huggling is the present participle and gerund of huggle.

Words near huggling in the dictionary

  1. huggles
  2. Hugglescote
  3. Hugglescote and Donington le Heath
  4. hugglier
  5. huggliest
  6. huggling
  7. huggly
  8. Huggon
  9. Huggs
  10. huggy
  11. Hugh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: huggling (page history and authors); huggle (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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