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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To coo like a dove; hence, to coax or fawn.
  2. To cower; crouch; brood; cuddle; lie close and snug.
  3. To feel cold.

Wiktionary

  1. v. UK, dialect, obsolete To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
  2. v. UK, dialect, obsolete To fawn or coax.
  3. v. Scotland, dialect, obsolete To coo.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Prov. Eng. To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
  2. v. obsolete To fawn or coax.
  3. v. Scot. To coo.

Etymologies

  1. Compare cruddle, crudle. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Mm, you're nice to croodle wi '," he murmured, doing what I assumed was croodling.”

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  • “There, my love, croodle-doo -- 'A black-bearded man who must be the father snatched the infant from her, stared a moment, and fell to his knees, shaken with unpracticed weeping.”

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  • “Up yonder a lark was singing, in adjoining spruce thickets we could hear the croodle of the ringdove, and in the swaying branches of the elms the solemn-looking rooks were already building their nests.”

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  1. coo

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  • sionnach pigeons do this Jun 9, 2011

  • blafferty I am definitely going to do this this weekend. May 5, 2011

  • whichbe To cower or crouch down; to draw oneself together, as for warmth. To cling close together, or nestle close to a person; snuggle. May 12, 2008

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