[f. prec. vb.] A hug or embrace.

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1825.  Song, in Brockett, N. C. Words, s.v., So then, wiv a kiss and a cuddle, These lovers they bent their ways heym.

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1870.  R. B. Brough, Marston Lynch, xxix. 309. Instead of a rebuke … he received only a tight cuddle round the neck.

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  Cuddle-me-to-you: see CULL v.2 b.

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