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Huggle vs Shuggle - What's the difference?

huggle | shuggle |

As verbs the difference between huggle and shuggle

is that huggle is to hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection while shuggle is to shake.

As a noun huggle

is a hug while snuggling: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.

huggle

English

Verb

  • (Internet, childish) To hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.
  • * '', e.g. in William Allingham, ''The ballad book: a selection of the choicest British ballads , Sever and Francis, 1865, p. 269.
    • Lie still, lie still, thou little Musgrave, , And huggle me from the cold; , 'tis nothing but a shepherds boy, , A-driving his sheep to fold.
  • (Internet) To hug and cuddle.
  • (archaic) To huddle.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Internet, childish) A hug while snuggling: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.

    • shuggle

    English

    Verb

    (shuggl)
  • (transitive, and, intransitive) To shake.
    • The sink is blocked, put a rod down the plug hole and shuggle it about.
  • * 1969 , Shaun Herron, Miro , page 128,
    • “It?s a mold for the false bottom of a briefcase. These cups keep things from shuggling about. Do they make briefcases there?”
  • * 2007 , Annabel Dore, The Great North Road , unnumbered page,
    • Clara was sitting outside Hisper Cottage, shuggling the pram. As Katherine approached, the nanny raised a finger to her lips.
    ‘Shh! Hazel?s just dropping off. Where?s Alice and Greta?’
  • * 2010 , Tom English, The Grudge: Scotland Vs. England, 1990 , page 20,
    • Without a key to the door he?d get in the window, shuggling the latch just so, freeing it up just enough to flip the glass up and slide in through the opening.