snoozle
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps Blend of snooze + nuzzle.
Verb
[edit]snoozle (third-person singular simple present snoozles, present participle snoozling, simple past and past participle snoozled)
- (British, rare) To nuzzle affectionately. [from earlier 19th c.]
- 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
- She […] seemed absorbed in her occupation; desisting from it only to […] push away a dog, now and then, that snoozled its nose overforwardly into her face.