{"id":23144,"date":"2023-11-02T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23144"},"modified":"2023-11-02T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T15:04:10","slug":"snudging-snuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23144","title":{"rendered":"Snudging &#038; Snuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like to <strong>snudge<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarkham\/4121059970\/in\/photolist-7havy7-avNLTy-zFxXsB-NpWup5-51E8AN-2mS9q9L-2gLVdv4-DyZijb-4cm4SK-yDVbh-4uoGTP-7ztBRR-gxoNuE-7hauVo-9XdJtm-aiAQpq-nh3UCU-2bZAWQw-2mrT7qz-2nriRB3-mt3zoF-5X1KDt-NDE2t9-2k3VNbK-mdYieF-jL3zMw-aDwC9k-jQ2EW7-7j1pR1-pFZ6o-95cF4B-7u7L7T-fGbBPA-2ozzcVs-7MW1Vn-2mQcbD6-r7qug-abenJQ-voZohq-4gP5TL-5vQeqX-dx9wnY-7qoZ1x-2mELTi4-nEb3sg-2kLQRj3-3Jqdop-7NVuog-7j4biM-26MQE\" title=\"Snuggling\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2562\/4121059970_e40b680d6d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Snuggling\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>To snudge<\/strong> is an old word that means to lie snug or quiet, to save in a miserly manner, or to hoard, and <strong>a snudge<\/strong> is a miser or sneaking fellow.<\/p>\n<p>You might also <strong>snudge along<\/strong>, which means to walk looking down, with an abstracted appearance. Many people do this while staring at their phones. Or on a cold day, you might <strong>snudge over the fire<\/strong>, that is, keep close to the fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snudge<\/strong> is related to <strong>snug<\/strong>, which apparently means tight or handsome in some English dialects, and possibly comes from Old Norse <em>snoggr<\/em> (short-haired), from Proto-Germanic <em>*snawwuz<\/em> (short, quick, fast).<\/p>\n<p>Related words in other languages include <strong>sn\u00f6ggur<\/strong> (short, swift, fast) in Icelandic, <strong>sn\u00f6g<\/strong> (neat) in Danish, and <strong>snygg<\/strong> (handsome, good-looking, proper, nice) in Swedish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snug<\/strong> originally meant compact or trim (of a ship), and especially protected from the weather. Later it came to mean in a state of ease or comfort, then to fit closely, <strong>as in snug as a bug in a rug<\/strong> or <strong>as in snug as a bee in a box<\/strong>. It also means warm and comfortable, cosy, safisfactory, and can be a small, comfortable back room in a pub (in the UK).<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s <strong>snuggle<\/strong>, which means an affectionate hug, or the final remnant left in a liquor bottle, and as a verb, it means to lie close to another person or thing, hugging or being cozy\/cosy, or to move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cosy position.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of <strong>snuggling<\/strong>, you might prefer <strong>snerdling<\/strong>, <strong>croozling<\/strong>, <strong>snoodling<\/strong>, <strong>snuzzling<\/strong> or  even <strong>neezling<\/strong>, which all mean more or less the same thing &#8211; being cozy and snug.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know any other interesting words for <strong>snudging<\/strong> or <strong>snuggling<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>How about versions of the phrase <strong>as in snug as a bug in a rug<\/strong> in other languages?<\/p>\n<p>In Scottish Gaelic there&#8217;s <strong>cho seasgair ri luchag ann an cruach<\/strong> (&#8220;as snug as a mouse in a haystack&#8221;), and <strong>cho bl\u00e0th &#8216;s cofhurtail ri ugh ann an t\u00f2n na circe<\/strong> (&#8220;as warm and comfortable as an egg in the backside of a hen&#8221;),<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/opinion\/columnists\/scots-has-more-than-400-words-for-snow-and-we-may-need-them-if-snowmageddon-descends-susie-dent-3959696\">https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/opinion\/columnists\/scots-has-more-than-400-words-for-snow-and-we-may-need-them-if-snowmageddon-descends-susie-dent-3959696<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/snudge#English\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/snudge#English<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/snug#English\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/snug#English<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/search?q=snug\">https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/search?q=snug<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/snuggle#English\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/snuggle#English<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/westcountryvoices.co.uk\/weird-and-wonderful-words-week-3\/\">https:\/\/westcountryvoices.co.uk\/weird-and-wonderful-words-week-3\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like to snudge? To snudge is an old word that means to lie snug or quiet, to save in a miserly manner, or to hoard, and a snudge is a miser or sneaking fellow. You might also snudge along, which means to walk looking down, with an abstracted appearance. Many people do this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,107,124,10,36,44,56,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-icelandic","category-language","category-old-norse","category-proto-germanic","category-scottish-gaelic","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23148,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144\/revisions\/23148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}