huggable

huggable

English

WOTD – 14 February 2010

A kitten hugging another kitten.

Alternative forms

• hugable

Etymology

From hug +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɡ.ə.bəl/

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Adjective

huggable (comparative more huggable, superlative most huggable)

1. Capable of, or suitable for, being hugged.
   • 1995, Ann M. Martin, Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook‎, page 78:

     Claud was glad to oblige, since Gabbie is an extremely huggable girl.

   • 2002, Jeffrey S. Turner, Families in America, page 147:

     Moreover, this need often manifests itself in the young child's selection of a cuddly or huggable doll or stuffed animal, called a transitional object by child psychologists.

   • 2005, Desiree Day, Crazy Love‎, page 183:

     He was exactly how she remembered him. Where Tyrell was cuddly and huggable, Mohammad was hard and sinewy.

Synonyms

• cuddly

Derived terms

• huggableness
• huggability
• huggably

Related terms

• hug

Translations

capable of, or suitable for, being hugged

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Danish: krammelig Dutch: knuffelbaar (nl) Finnish: halattava French: douillet (fr), confortable (fr) German: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: ölelni való

Italian: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: 逗人喜爱的 Portuguese: abraçável (pt) m or f Russian: обнима́емый (ru) (obnimájemyj) Spanish: mullido (es), blando (es), abrazable (es), achuchable (es) Swedish: kramgo (sv)