Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To engage in caressing, petting, or lovemaking.
- v. To win over or convince by cajoling or flattering; wheedle: "his matchless ability to charm, bamboozle, or canoodle most of his political associates” ( Timothy Garton Ash).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- v. fondle or pet affectionately
Etymologies
- Origin Unknown; compare Swedish knulla ("to fornicate"), German knuddeln ("to cuddle"). Folk etymology cites the use of two person canoes as an activity to escape the presence of a chaperon by couples during Victorian and Edwardian times, and the activities such privacy allowed. (Wiktionary)
- Akin to English dialectal canoodle, donkey, fool, one who is foolish in love. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One of the great and repeated users of the word canoodle was the mystery writer John Dickson Carr under his pseudonym Carter Dickson.”
“I know family is important, but really leave that whole kit and kaboodle 'til after you've done some canoodle (ing.)”
“A pre-Emmy shindig for the Motion Picture and Television Fund, where the hub of all the creators and artists in entertainment that create, well, art and entertainment for basically everything we consume, commence and canoodle for one evening under the stars at an undisclosed location.”
The Huffington Post: Abigail Spencer: "The Beautiful Barn," aka My LA Emmy Weekend
“But, it turns out, the agency that brought this planet foam mattresses and foamless toothpaste shall continue to receive/collect/canoodle funding.”
“The "Progress of Love," depicting the course of love among elegantly dressed, handsome young men and women who flirt, tryst, pose and canoodle in a lush garden, was completed and installed in 1772.”
“Hell, canoodle with an up and coming starlet for your own personal fifteen minutes.”
“And yes, she dishes about her brief '06 canoodle with Prince Harry - coyly referred to only as "a very handsome young Royal" - that made her short-term tabloid bait.”
“Pienaar acknowledged this after the match, reviving for his fellow pundit Lawrence Dallaglio the days when it was possible in a tournament like this to kick back, relax, canoodle, carouse, throw the odd dwarf around – I am paraphrasing, he did not use those exact words – and just begin to focus on a contest against a team like Georgia in the two or three days before the match.”
“And yes, she dishes about her brief '06 canoodle with Prince Harry -- coyly referred to only as "a very handsome young Royal" -- that made her short-term tabloid bait.”
“Private salas are scattered around the resort, perched over the Indian Ocean, so couples can canoodle post-spa or pre-dinner.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘canoodle’.
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A List Of The Cutest Words Ever Created!
HEE OK LETS DO IT! I'm v.v. excited! (with thanks to whichbe, Lampbane, bilby, effigy, frogapplause, and fredrx!)
piggy, toesy woesies, snurfle, wiggly, chomp, lewispoo, dobby, dunderhead, cupcake, mumbo jumbo, wigglebop, scuttle and 99 more...
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Hugonyms
Anything hugging related :)
squeeze, embrace, cuddle, nestle, cling, snuggle, arms, exchange, bear hug, thoughtful, affectionate, waist and 16 more...
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Noodle and such
noodle, ladle, middle, model, muddle, addle, paddle, piddle, dreidel, toddle, poodle, streudel and 16 more...
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Randomocity
Jeepers, Gadzooks, Golly Gee Whitickers,
squalor,, oodles,, pedantic, snarky, tchotchke, prima donna, hovel, canoodle, juxtapositions, nouveau riche, chagrin, factotum and 12 more...
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VVCle
Look at the list for examples
doodle, google, beetle, sheeple, steeple, poodle, noodle, needle, feeble, bamboozle, rootle, creeple and 11 more...
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Mouthlong
Having the -oo- innit
snood, coof, brood, tool, canoodle, spool, bloom, toom, shroom, hoot, boot, loom and 2 more...
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fredrx's beautiful sounding list
two most beautiful words when put together
womb, philistine, poignant, wombastic, eschelon, macabre, precipitous, panache, misogynist, placebo, cacophony, aplomb and 43 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
How very mikeropological..
Basically it's just mikeropology's words, but with his username turned into an adjectivally splendid list name.
mikeropology, squoze, anthropromorphism, mullu, spondylus, goobers, hipster, burnt umber, ochre, canvas, lapizure, burnt sienna and 172 more...
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This week's words
hand-handled, crouch, hootchy-kootchy, gloriole, glory hole, metempsychosis, doctrinaire, transmigration, celestial, treetop, luxuriant, physic and 102 more...
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poonis's Words
windswept, brouhaha, nocuous, sanguine, dissonance, diatribe, homunculus, rancor, stupor, resplendent, anecdote, splay and 125 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
fall afoul, fleet, tamarisk, krait, inkstone, hotted up, down-market, have a truck with, brio, fatalistic, knock-kneed, conserve and 210 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for canoodle.
bilby Ah, kit and kanoodle. Aug 8, 2008
tankexmortis "So I was canoodling my cat last night..." Aug 7, 2008