canoodling
English edit
Verb edit
canoodling
- present participle and gerund of canoodle
Noun edit
canoodling (plural canoodlings)
- amorous pettings or caresses
- 1956, George Henry Hubert Lascelles Harewood (Earl of), Opera, volume 7, page 15:
- Admittedly one is spared the nauseating canoodlings of lovers whose lungs are manifestly greater than their love, which are so common in Wagner evenings […]
- 2009 April 5, Jesse Mckinley, “Order a Mai Tai and Save Paradise”, in New York Times[1]:
- Sure enough, with dark wood walls, thatched overhangs and a formidable totem at the front desk, the Tonga Room has also been the site of more than a few clandestine canoodlings, some of which were immortalized by Herb Caen, the famed San Francisco Chronicle columnist, who trumpeted the room’s happy hour and its famously strong mai tai.