Definitions
a tight or amorous embrace
Word origin
From earlier hugge (“to embrace, clasp with the arms”) (1560), probably representing a conflation of huck (“to crouch, huddle down”) and Old Norse hugga (“to comfort, console”), from hugr (“mind, heart, thought”), from Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“mind, thought, sense”), cognate with Icelandic hugga (“to comfort”), Old English hyġe (“thought”) (whence high (Etymology 2)).
Used in a sentence
“They had a slight breast work, and they hugged down behind it and waited.”
“bright rocks whose stain of emerald or quartz shaft of shine the starfish hugged beneath the tide .”
“She put her feet on a rung and hugged down against her knees, making herself even smaller.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Embrace”3 letters
02“Squeeze warmly”3 letters
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