snoodle, v. dial. (chiefly north.) or nursery. Now rare.
(ˈsnuːd(ə)l)
[See Eng. Dial. Dict.: prob. rel. to snudge v.2, snuggle v., etc.]
intr. To snuggle, nestle. Also trans.
| 1887 in T. Darlington Folk-Speech S. Cheshire 355. 1898 R. Dottie Rambles & Recoll. ‘{oqq}R{cqq} Dick’ 115 Eaur snug, white hostelry snoodlin' i' th' valley. 1904 J. Vaizey More about Pixie (1910) i. 9 She snoodled her head along the pillow so as to lean it against the nurse's shoulder. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 32 Snoodling beside lumps of coral or beneath weather-beaten drift-wood, they [sc. young birds] afford startling proof of the effect of sympathetic coloration. |