"canoodle" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kəˈnuːdl̩/ Audio: en-us-canoodle.ogg Forms: canoodles [plural]
Rhymes: -uːdəl Etymology: Origin unknown; compare Swedish knulla (“to fuck”), Norwegian Bokmål knulle (“to fuck”), German knuddeln (“to cuddle”). The German word comes from Knoten (“knot”), so it may be that "close contact" is the root concept. Folk etymology cites the use of two-person canoes as an activity to escape the presence of a chaperon by couples during Victorian and Edwardian times, and the activities such privacy allowed. Supposedly, a "canoe" and "paddle" were used to sail away from the chaperone. Etymology templates: {{unk|en|title=unknown}} unknown, {{cog|sv|knulla||to fuck}} Swedish knulla (“to fuck”), {{cog|nb|knulle||to fuck}} Norwegian Bokmål knulle (“to fuck”), {{cog|de|knuddeln||to cuddle}} German knuddeln (“to cuddle”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} canoodle (plural canoodles)
  1. A cuddle, hug, or caress Translations (cuddle, hug): Umarmung [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-canoodle-en-noun-ptO4-i24 Disambiguation of 'cuddle, hug': 97 1 2
  2. (UK dialectal) A fool or foolish lover. Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-canoodle-en-noun-rqxrOEKo Categories (other): British English
  3. (UK dialectal) A donkey. Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-canoodle-en-noun-RlB71q62 Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: kanoodle

Verb

IPA: /kəˈnuːdl̩/ Audio: en-us-canoodle.ogg Forms: canoodles [present, singular, third-person], canoodling [participle, present], canoodled [participle, past], canoodled [past]
Rhymes: -uːdəl Etymology: Origin unknown; compare Swedish knulla (“to fuck”), Norwegian Bokmål knulle (“to fuck”), German knuddeln (“to cuddle”). The German word comes from Knoten (“knot”), so it may be that "close contact" is the root concept. Folk etymology cites the use of two-person canoes as an activity to escape the presence of a chaperon by couples during Victorian and Edwardian times, and the activities such privacy allowed. Supposedly, a "canoe" and "paddle" were used to sail away from the chaperone. Etymology templates: {{unk|en|title=unknown}} unknown, {{cog|sv|knulla||to fuck}} Swedish knulla (“to fuck”), {{cog|nb|knulle||to fuck}} Norwegian Bokmål knulle (“to fuck”), {{cog|de|knuddeln||to cuddle}} German knuddeln (“to cuddle”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} canoodle (third-person singular simple present canoodles, present participle canoodling, simple past and past participle canoodled)
  1. To caress, pet, feel up, or make love. Synonyms: touch up, grope, fondle Translations (to caress, pet, touch up, or make love): прегръщам (pregrǎštam) (Bulgarian), галя (galja) (Bulgarian), halailla (Finnish), lemmiskellä (Finnish), streicheln (German), tätscheln (German), kuscheln (German), nyal-fal (often nyalják-falják egymást) (Hungarian), ölelkezik (Hungarian), smacizik (Hungarian), eszik egymást (Hungarian), sbaciucchiare (Italian), sbaciucchiarsi (Italian), scambiarsi effusioni (Italian), pomiciare (Italian)
    Sense id: en-canoodle-en-verb-GYPXOOmx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 10 11 63 7 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 6 3 79 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 7 7 5 77 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 6 4 79 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 8 14 20 47 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 8 14 20 47 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 12 9 7 64 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 8 14 20 47 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 12 8 5 68 7 Disambiguation of 'to caress, pet, touch up, or make love': 91 9
  2. To cajole or persuade. Synonyms: coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle Translations (to cajole or persuade): überreden (German), beschwatzen (German)
    Sense id: en-canoodle-en-verb-r8cmoH3V Disambiguation of 'to cajole or persuade': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: kanoodle Derived forms: canoodler

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2022 August 7, Jessica Fostekew, “‘I canoodled in hedges and fumbled in recycling bins as a teenager – and I don’t regret a thing’”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "You may have been a classy, demure teenager, but I was a pragmatist, a hedge-better. And it was often hedges in which I canoodled.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To caress, pet, feel up, or make love."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "caress",
          "caress#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "pet",
          "pet#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "feel up",
          "feel up"
        ],
        [
          "make love",
          "make love"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "touch up"
        },
        {
          "word": "grope"
        },
        {
          "word": "fondle"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1900, Charles Felton Pidgin, Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cajole or persuade."
      ],
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        [
          "cajole",
          "cajole"
        ],
        [
          "persuade",
          "persuade"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "coax"
        },
        {
          "word": "inveigle"
        },
        {
          "word": "sweet-talk"
        },
        {
          "word": "wheedle"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/kəˈnuːdl̩/"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/En-us-canoodle.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːdəl"
    }
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    {
      "word": "kanoodle"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pregrǎštam",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "прегръщам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "galja",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "галя"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "halailla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "lemmiskellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "streicheln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "tätscheln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "kuscheln"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "nyal-fal (often nyalják-falják egymást)"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "ölelkezik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "smacizik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "eszik egymást"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "sbaciucchiare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "sbaciucchiarsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "scambiarsi effusioni"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to caress, pet, touch up, or make love",
      "word": "pomiciare"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cajole or persuade",
      "word": "überreden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cajole or persuade",
      "word": "beschwatzen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "canoodle"
}

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    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/uːdəl",
    "Rhymes:English/uːdəl/3 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "title": "unknown"
      },
      "expansion": "unknown",
      "name": "unk"
    },
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        "1": "sv",
        "2": "knulla",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to fuck"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
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        "2": "knulle",
        "3": "",
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "knuddeln",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to cuddle"
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Origin unknown; compare Swedish knulla (“to fuck”), Norwegian Bokmål knulle (“to fuck”), German knuddeln (“to cuddle”). The German word comes from Knoten (“knot”), so it may be that \"close contact\" is the root concept. Folk etymology cites the use of two-person canoes as an activity to escape the presence of a chaperon by couples during Victorian and Edwardian times, and the activities such privacy allowed. Supposedly, a \"canoe\" and \"paddle\" were used to sail away from the chaperone.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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    "ca‧noo‧dle"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A cuddle, hug, or caress"
      ],
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        [
          "cuddle",
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          "hug",
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        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English dialectal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fool or foolish lover."
      ],
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          "fool",
          "fool"
        ],
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          "foolish",
          "foolish"
        ],
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          "lover",
          "lover"
        ]
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        "(UK dialectal) A fool or foolish lover."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English dialectal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A donkey."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "donkey",
          "donkey"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK dialectal) A donkey."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kəˈnuːdl̩/"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-canoodle.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/74/En-us-canoodle.ogg/En-us-canoodle.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/En-us-canoodle.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːdəl"
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "kanoodle"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cuddle, hug",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Umarmung"
    }
  ],
  "word": "canoodle"
}

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