snuggle up

English

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Verb

snuggle up (third-person singular simple present snuggles up, present participle snuggling up, simple past and past participle snuggled up)

1. (intransitive) To lie or sit in a comfortable, relaxed position, holding someone or something else.

   I was snuggling up in bed with my blanket.

   She snuggled up with her boyfriend.

   • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     Gingernut was small and ginger too, though of course he didn’t wear braces. That smallness and gingerness was probably, deep down, why Zoe chose him out of the dozens of little balls of fluff snuggled up together behind the glass at the pet shop.

Synonyms

• (lie or sit holding): cuddle up, ensconce