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/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Adjective

huggable (comparative more huggable, superlative most huggable)

1. Capable of, or suitable for, being hugged.
   • 1992, “Jump”, performed by Kris Kross:

     How high? Real high 'cause I'm just so fly / A young lovable, huggable type of guy

   • 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: umarmbar (uncommon), anschmiegsam (de), knuddelig (de)
• Hungarian: ölelni való (hu)
• 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)