Now dial. [Of obscure origin: perh. related to SNUG v.] intr. To remain snug and quiet; to nestle.
1633. G. Herbert, Temple, Giddinesse, iii. Now he will fight it out, and to the warres; Now eat his bread in peace, And snudge in quiet.
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint., I. (1856), 124. The Age, the present times are not To snudge in, and embrace a cot.
1686. F. Spence, trans. Saint Euvremont’s Misc., Pref. C 3. Tragedy, like the Aristotelian virtue, is to lie snudging betwixt them both.
1755. Johnson, To snug, to lie close; to snudge.
1823–. dial. glossaries (Westm., Yorks., Derby, Suffolk).
