Cuddle vs Curdle - What's the difference?
cuddle | curdle |
To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly.
To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.
To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
* Prior
(ambitransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
(ambitransitive) To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)
* 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly
* 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
In transitive terms the difference between cuddle and curdle
is that cuddle is to cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth while curdle is to cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly.As verbs the difference between cuddle and curdle
is that cuddle is to embrace affectionately, lie together snugly while curdle is to form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk.As a noun cuddle
is a snuggle; an affectionate embrace, often given to family members and close friends.cuddle
English
Verb
- The young lovers cuddled on the couch.
- She cuddled the infant before bedtime.
- I'm cold; can you roll over here and cuddle me, honey?
- She cuddles low beneath the brake; / Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly.
Derived terms
* cuddlable * cuddler * cuddlesome * cuddle up * cuddlycurdle
English
Verb
(curdl)- Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.
- "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle , "beware of to-morrow!"
- It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.'
