a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace
move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags"
hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth; "I cuddled the baby"
English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)