Word Direct Answers

What does "nuzzle" mean?

Nuzzle: Etym: [Perh. a corruption of nestle. Cf. Nustle.] To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud. And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin. Shak. He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud. Arbuthnot.
  2. 3.To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down. Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along. Arbuthnot.
  3. 4.Etym: [Cf. Nuzzle, v. t., 2.] To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
  4. 5.To loiter; to idle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

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