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huggable

adj
/ˈhʌɡ.ə.bəl/UK

Etymology

From hug + -able.

  1. derived from *hugiz✻ — “mind, thought, sense”
  2. derived from hugga — “to comfort, console”
  3. suffixed as huggable — “hug + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being hugged.

    • How high? Real high 'cause I'm just so fly / A young lovable, huggable type of guy
    • Claud was glad to oblige, since Gabbie is an extremely huggable girl.
    • Moreover, this need often manifests itself in the young child's selection of a cuddly or huggable doll or stuffed animal, called a transitional object by child psychologists.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for huggable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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