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# cuddly

«cuddly» in Mova's school dictionary: **soft, warm and nice to hug** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (cuddly, cuddlier, cuddliest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cuddly means soft, warm and nice to hug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuddly/#m1)

2) A cuddly person or animal is friendly and likes to be hugged, or is a little plump in a pleasant way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuddly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life young children have a cuddly toy at bedtime; puppies and kittens look cuddly. In stories cuddly describes a friendly, gentle character. Safety: a wild animal that looks cuddly, like a bear, can still be dangerous. Phrases: cuddly toy, cuddly teddy, cuddly animal.

### examples

- My sister sleeps with her cuddly rabbit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuddly/#x1)
- Kittens are so cuddly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuddly/#x2)
- The fair gave cuddly toys as prizes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuddly/#x3)
- Grandma is warm and cuddly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuddly/#x4)
- Koalas look cuddly, but they have sharp claws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuddly/#x5)
- He won a big cuddly bear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuddly/#x6)

### note

Comparison: cuddly, cuddlier, cuddliest. Verb: cuddle. «Cuddly toy» is British; Americans say «stuffed animal» or «plush toy».

### In the corpora

- ["Cuddly" said of a person often means fat, in a warm way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cuddly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuddly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.