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Canoodle vs Kanoodle - What's the difference?

canoodle | kanoodle |

As verbs the difference between canoodle and kanoodle

is that canoodle is to caress, touch up, pet or make love while kanoodle is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a noun canoodle

is a cuddle, hug, or caress.

canoodle

English

Verb

(canoodl)
  • To caress, touch up, pet or make love
    • He's got a big smile on his face; who's he been canoodling recently?
  • * 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
    • As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand.
  • To persuade or cajole
  • * 1900:' , ''Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life'' - He ' canoodled my husband into believin' that the end of the world was comin' and it was his duty to give all his property away.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cuddle, hug, or caress

    • See also

    * kanoodle

    kanoodle

    English

    Verb

    • Quotations

    *1880. George Wilbur Peck. Peck's Fun: Being Extracts from the "La Crosse Sun," and "Peck's Sun... , page 29 [http://books.google.com/books?id=omQ08Vz80WUC&pg=PA29&dq=kanoodle&lr=]: *: He was a truly good man, and did not believe there were any bad men in the world, who would kanoodle him with a stone crusher. *1887 . George Wilbur Peck. How Private Geo. W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion , page 156 [http://books.google.com/books?id=ysYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156&dq=kanoodle&lr=]: *: And above all things, do not let her kanoodle you with soft words and looks of love, because she is full of 'em. *2007. Jackie Kessler. The Road to Hell , page 36: *: I refused to kanoodle with anyone who wasn't my true love.

    See also

    *canoodle

    References

    * (to cajole) Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang , Jonathan E. Lighter, 1994, page 336.