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Canoodle vs Nuzzle - What's the difference?

canoodle | nuzzle |

As verbs the difference between canoodle and nuzzle

is that canoodle is to caress, touch up, pet or make love while nuzzle is to touch someone or something with the nose.

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

    nuzzle

    English

    Verb

  • To touch someone or something with the nose.
    • The horse nuzzled its foal's head gently to wake him up.
    The bird nuzzled up to the wires of the cage.
    She nuzzled her boyfriend in the cinema.
  • (obsolete) To nurse; to foster; to bring up.
  • * Milton
    • The people had been nuzzled in idolatry.
  • (obsolete) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

    • Related terms

    * (l)

    References

    * Folk-etymology: a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy, Abram Smythe Palmer, G. Bell and Sons, 1882, p. 261