Nuzzle

[NuzĀ·zle]

To nuzzle is to affectionately rub your nose and face against someone (or something). It's hard to get out of bed in the morning when your cat lies down on your chest and nuzzles you.

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To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.

Verb
dig out with the snout; "the pig nuzzled the truffle"

Verb
rub noses

Verb
move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags"


v. t.
To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.

v. t.
To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

v. i.
To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.

v. i.
To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.

v. t.
To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.

v. t.
To loiter; to idle.


Nuzzle

Nuz"zle , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nuzzied ;p. pr. & vb. n. Nuzzling .] [See Noursle.] 1. To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up. [Obs.]
The people had been nuzzled in idolatry.
2. [Perh. a corruption of nestle. Cf. Nustle.] To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

Nuzzle

Nuz"zle , v. i. [Dim. fr. nose. See Nozzle.] 1. To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.
And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin.
He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud.
2. To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.
Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along.
3. [Cf. Nuzzle, v. t., 2.] To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle. 4. To loiter; to idle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.

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