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Muzzles vs Nuzzles - What's the difference?

muzzles | nuzzles |

As verbs the difference between muzzles and nuzzles

is that muzzles is third-person singular of muzzle while nuzzles is third-person singular of nuzzle.

As a noun muzzles

is plural of muzzle.

muzzles

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (muzzle)

    • nuzzles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nuzzle)

    • 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