Canoodle

Quick meaning: Canoodle is a verb meaning To caress, fondle, or pet (someone); also, to have sexual intercourse with (someone); to make love with.

Meaning

To caress, fondle, or pet (someone); also, to have sexual intercourse with (someone); to make love with.

More Meanings

1. To cajole or persuade (someone).
2. (originally US, slang) A caress, a cuddle, a hug.
3. A donkey.
4. A foolish lover; also (generally) a fool.
5. (intransitive) Of a person: to caress, fondle, or pet another person; of two people: to caress, fondle, or pet each other; also, to have sexual intercourse; to make love.

Example Sentences

He’s got a big smile on his face—who’s he been canoodling recently?

Young Robin and my daughter. / ‘Canoodling’ too. This must lead to manslaughter.

He canoodled my husband into believin' that the end of the world was comin' and it was his duty to give all his property away.

Gerald Arbuthnot sat with her in the library all the time Jim was upstairs dying and they canoodled together on the sofa in front of the fire.

Word Forms

• canoodles
• canoodling
• canoodled
• cannoodle

Synonyms for canoodle

Depending on context, synonyms include grope, touch up, caress, coax, cosset, dally.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include neck, dally, fondle, caress, firkytoodle, snuzzle.

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