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Canoodling vs Cuddling - What's the difference?

canoodling | cuddling |

As verbs the difference between canoodling and cuddling

is that canoodling is while cuddling is .

As nouns the difference between canoodling and cuddling

is that canoodling is amorous pettings or caresses while cuddling is the act of giving a cuddle.

canoodling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • amorous pettings or caresses
  • * 1956 , George Henry Hubert Lascelles Harewood (Earl of), Opera (volume 7, page 15)
    • Admittedly one is spared the nauseating canoodlings of lovers whose lungs are manifestly greater than their love, which are so common in Wagner evenings
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 5, author=Jesse Mckinley, title=Order a Mai Tai and Save Paradise, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Sure enough, with dark wood walls, thatched overhangs and a formidable totem at the front desk, the Tonga Room has also been the site of more than a few clandestine canoodlings , some of which were immortalized by Herb Caen, the famed San Francisco Chronicle columnist, who trumpeted the room’s happy hour and its famously strong mai tai. }}

    cuddling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a cuddle.
  • * 1919 , Lucy Montgomery, Rainbow Valley (page 28)
    • Una envied all children their mothers. She had been only six when her mother died, but she had some very precious memories, treasured in her soul like jewels, of twilight cuddlings and morning frolics