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cuddly-wuddly

adj

Etymology

First use appears c. 1938. See cite below.

Definitions

  1. Cute, cuddly or adorable.

    • 'I'm not tired. I never want to go to bed again. Yes, I'm comfy, cuddly-wuddly.
    • not books full of itsy-bitsy cuddly-wuddly fat-headed peeps and little vapid pink pigs in frock coats and all that blah, but good stuff like Oz, and Grimm, and Kipling, and Poe and Little Women.”
    • are such cuddly-wuddly butterballs that I wish the hunting season were on ... The bears' most prominent feature are big black rubberball noses, which I'd like to punch, they're so cute.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA