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Nuzzle vs Fuzzle - What's the difference?

nuzzle | fuzzle |

In obsolete terms the difference between nuzzle and fuzzle

is that nuzzle is to nestle; to house, as in a nest while fuzzle is to make drunk; to intoxicate.

As verbs the difference between nuzzle and fuzzle

is that nuzzle is of animals, lovers, etc To touch someone or something with the nose while fuzzle is to make drunk; to intoxicate.

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

    fuzzle

    English

    Verb

    (fuzzl)
  • (obsolete) To make drunk; to intoxicate.
    • (Burton)
    (Webster 1913)