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Definition: Canoodle |
CanoodleVerb1. Slang; fondle or pet affectionately. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We came to create a revolution of the mind, not to canoodle on a hillock (Pandaemonium; writing credit: Frank Cottrell Boyce) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
canoodle | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "canoodle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përqafohem (embrace one another, lallygag, neck), përkëdhel (caress, cosher, dandle, fondle, pamper, pet, play about, spoon feed, stroke). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | галя (caress, cosset, flatter, fondle, kiss, neck, nurse, pet), прегръщам (clasp, clinch, cling, cradle, cuddle, embosom, embrace, enclasp, enfold, fold, inarm, pet). (various references) | |
German | schmusen (cuddle, cuddling, neck, smooch, spoon, to smooch), abknutschen. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"תמזמז (dally, flirt, fool around, make out, neck, pet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | smacizik (neck, to snog), kedvességgel levesz a lábáról. (various references) | |
Italian | coccolare (Cocker, coddle, cosher, cosset, cuddle, lap, mollycoddle, pamper, pet), vezzeggiare (cosher, cosset, dandle, fondle, nuzzle, pamper), sbacciucchiare. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anoodlecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fazer festinhas (fondle, spoon), ameigar, afagar (caress, cherish, chuck, cotton, cotton on, embosom, fondle, hug, pamper, pat, pet, stroke), acariciar (blandish, caress, cherish, chuck, dandle, embosom, fawn, fondle, hug, neck, nestle, nurse, paddle, pamper, pet, stroke). (various references) | |
Russian | нежить, ласкать (caress, cosher, dandle, fondle, pet). (various references) | |
Spanish | mimar (coax, coddle, cosset, fondle, humor, humour, indulge, mollycoddle, mother, pamper, pet, spoil, spoon feed, wait on), besuquearse (smooch), acariciar (caress, chuck, cuddle, fawn on, fondle, hug, Pat, pet, snuggle, stroke, tickle, toy with), abrazar (bosom, clasp, clinch, cuddle, embosom, embrace, hug). (various references) | |
Swedish | kela (coddle, cuddle, pamper, pet). (various references) | |
Turkish | sarılmak (arm, be wrapped, clasp, clasp smb. in one's arms, cling, clip, coil, coil up, cuddle, give a hug, give smb. a hug, hold on, hug, snuggle, twine, wind), okşamak (caress, dandle, fondle, grope, Pat, pet, stroke), kucaklamak (caress, clasp, clasp smb. in one's arms, cuddle, embosom, embrace, encircle, enclasp, enfold, fold in one's arms, give a hug, give smb. a hug, hug, infold, snuggle, strain smb. to one's breast), bağrına basmak (cherish, embrace, nestle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | голубити (caress, cosset, pet), обійматися (embrace), ніжити (coddle), милуватися (admire), пестити (brood, caress, cherish, cosher, cosset, dandle, embosom, fondle, groom, nourish, nurse, nuzzle, pet, pettle, spoil). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "canoodle": canoodled, canoodles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: celadon, condole. | |
-2 letters: acnode, candle, canoed, cloned, coaled, colead, colone, cooled, deacon, lanced, loaned, locoed, noodle. | |
-3 letters: acned, acold, alone, anode, anole, caned, canoe, clade, clean, clone, coden, codon, coled, colon, condo, coned, cooed, dance, decal, dolce, eland, laced, laden, lance, loden, looed, naled, nodal, ocean, odeon, olden. | |
-4 letters: aced, acne, aeon, alec, aloe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: canoodled, canoodles, colonnade, lancewood. | |
+2 letters: candlewood, colonnaded, colonnades, condonable, coromandel, lancewoods. | |
+3 letters: candlewoods, conglobated, consolidate, coromandels, decollation, scolopendra. | |
+4 letters: colonialized, compoundable, consolidated, consolidates, coordinately, cotyledonary, decollations, disconsolate, endochondral, oleandomycin, scolopendras. | |
+5 letters: coeducational, conditionable, conglomerated, demonological, dendrological, deontological, mononucleated, oleandomycins, reconsolidate, unideological. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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