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Canoodle vs Muzzle - What's the difference?

canoodle | muzzle |

As verbs the difference between canoodle and muzzle

is that canoodle is to caress, touch up, pet or make love while muzzle is to bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

As nouns the difference between canoodle and muzzle

is that canoodle is a cuddle, hug, or caress while muzzle is the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout.

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

    muzzle

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout
  • The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech.
  • A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle
  • (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

    • Derived terms

    * muzzle blast * muzzle brake * muzzle compensator * muzzle energy * muzzleloader * muzzleloading * muzzle velocity

    Verb

    (muzzl)
  • To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 4
    • Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
  • (figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled , masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
  • (obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
  • (obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
  • To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
  • * (rfdate) Sir R. L'Estrange
    • The bear muzzles and smells to him.

    Derived terms

    * muzzler

    References

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