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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



... and the Squire were dumfounded. Their mystification culminated in one grand chorus of amazement when, on Friday, the Squire came to the hotel hugging under his ...
— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter

... was expending, but because again from the camp had come that blood-freezing howl. A lighter line marked the lip of the cut in which the stream was set, something he had not foreseen. He threw himself down to crawl the last few feet, hugging the earth. ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton

... cried the Highlander, catching the child up in his arms and hugging him, by which means he left a dark imprint of him on his own breast ...
— The Settler and the Savage • R.M. Ballantyne

... inundation, the rocks and sandbanks of the right side are completely under water, and their presence is only betrayed by eddies. But on the river's reaching its lowest point a fall of some six feet is established, and there big boats, hugging the shore, are hauled up by means of ropes, or easily drift down with ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... gave me Adam," hugging the dog's ugly, faithful head. He immediately tried to sit in her wet lap. "And he's done as much for me ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow


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