croodle

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  1. To coo like a dove; hence, to coax or fawn. [Scots.]
  2. To cower; crouch; brood; cuddle; lie close and snug. [Provincial English] O whaur hae ye been a' the day, My little wee croodlin doo? The Croodlin Doo (Child's Ballads, II. 363). As a dove to fly home to her nest and croodle there. Kingsley.
  3. To feel cold. [Provincial English]

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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. —  Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure
  • I will confess to you, though, that in those first heats of youth, this little England -- or rather, this little patch of moor in which I have struck roots as firm as the wild fir-trees do -- looked at moments rather like a prison than a palace; that my foolish young heart would sigh, 'Oh! that I had wings' -- not as a dove, to fly home to its nest and croodle there -- but as an eagle, to swoop away over land and sea, in a rampant and self-glorifying fashion, on which I now look back as altogether unwholesome and undesirable. —  Prose Idylls, New and Old
 

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  1. Also written croudle; freq. of crood, coo.
  2. English dial.; perhaps a freq. of crowd, press close together.
 

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