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Nozzle vs Nuzzle - What's the difference?

nozzle | nuzzle |

As a noun nozzle

is a short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.

As a verb nuzzle is

of animals, lovers, etc To touch someone or something with the nose.

nozzle

English

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
  • A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

    • 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