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Hugging   /hˈəgɪŋ/   Listen
Hugging

noun
1.
Affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs).  Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling.



Hug

verb
(past & past part. hugged; pres. part. hugging)
1.
Squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness.  Synonyms: bosom, embrace, squeeze.  "They embraced" , "He hugged her close to him"
2.
Fit closely or tightly.



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"Hugging" Quotes from Famous Books



... see my little boy hugging himself with delight at the near prospect of the kindergarten, I go back in memory forty years and more to the day when I was dragged, a howling captive, to school, as a punishment for being bad at ...
— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis

... lay below, hugging the river, a relic of the days when steamboats plied up and down the stream and railways were remote, a sleepy, insignificant, intensely rural hamlet of less than six hundred inhabitants. Its one claim to distinction was the venerable but still active ferry that laboured ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon

... they then looked out, and saw the bundle of straw on the heap, but neither child nor fairy. 'Go into your bedroom, Katty,' said the fairy-man, 'and see if there's anything left on the bed!' She did so, and they soon heard a cry of joy, and Katty was among them in a moment, kissing and hugging her own healthy-looking child, who was waking and rubbing his eyes, and wondering at the lights ...
— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland

... rage," Fred replied; "I shouldn't say anything nasty to her if I were you, she didn't fall into the Cher on purpose. What is that huge great bundle of papers you are hugging?" ...
— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley

... have fallen a second time, decayed and beguiled by a purse with a hundred ducats that I found one day in the heart of the Sierra Morena; and the devil is always putting a bag full of doubloons before my eyes, here, there, everywhere, until I fancy at every stop I am putting my hand on it, and hugging it, and carrying it home with me, and making investments, and getting interest, and living like a prince; and so long as I think of this I make light of all the hardships I endure with this simpleton of a master of mine, who, I well know, is more of ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


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