canoodle

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“
Didn't do sex - adopted six (?) kids but never, it seems, had so much as a canoodle with his wife and throughout their marriage slept in separate bedrooms.

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  1. intransitive verb To engage in caressing, petting, or lovemaking.
  2. transitive verb 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).

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  1. Akin to English dialectal canoodle, donkey, fool, one who is foolish in love.

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  1. Origin obscure.
 

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/kəˈnudl/
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