Definition of "nuzzle"

nuzzle

/ˈnʌzl̩/

verb
third-person singular simple present nuzzles, present participle nuzzling, simple past and past participle nuzzled
1. (transitive, intransitive) (of animals, lovers, etc) To touch someone or something with the nose.
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  Within a couple of hours, pictures of General B nuzzling Kitty Jackson were being posted and traded on the Web.
  2010, Jennifer Egan, “Selling the General”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad
2. (obsolete) To nurse; to foster; to bring up.
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  The people had been nuzzled in idolatry.
  1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916
3. (obsolete) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
4. (obsolete) To go along with the nose to the ground, like a pig.
  Quotations
  It vvould have done your Heart good to have ſeen him charge through an Army of Lavvyers, Attornies, Clerks, and Tradeſmen; ſometimes vvith Svvord in Hand, at other Times nuzzling like an Eel in the Mud.
  1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. The Second Part. Chapter VII. Of the Hard Shifts Mrs. Bull was Put to, to Preserve the Manor of Bullock’s-Hatch; with Sir Roger’s Method to Keep off Importunate Duns.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], page 94
  1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]

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nuzzle

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