snudging

Verb (1)

snudge (third-person singular simple present snudges, present participle snudging, simple past and past participle snudged)

1. (also, intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To save in a miserly manner; to hoard.
   • Ill huſbandry trudgeth with vnthrifts about, / good huſbandry ſnudgeth for feare of a dout.1570, Thomas Tusser, “Comparing Good Husband with Vnthrift His Brother, the Better Descerneth the Tone from the Tother”, in A Hundrethe Good Pointes of Husbandrie, Lately Maried vnto a Hundrethe Good...
2. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete, except UK) Also followed by along: to walk with one's head down; to walk with a stoop.
   • [T]o Snudge along, to go like an old Snudge, or like one vvhoſe Head is full of buſineſs, […][1687–1688, Guy Miege, “to Snudge along”, in The Great French Dictionary. […], London: […] J. Redmayne, for Tho[mas] Basset, […], →OCLC, signature Qqq3, verso, column 1

Verb (2)

snudge (third-person singular simple present snudges, present participle snudging, simple past and past participle snudged)

1. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete, obsolete except UK) To lie quiet and snug; to nestle, to snuggle.
   • to snudge over a fire

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