huggable

WOTD – 14 February 2010    

English

A kitten hugging another kitten.

Alternative forms

• hugable

Etymology

From hug +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈhʌɡ.ə.bəl/

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
• huggably

Related terms

• hug

Translations

capable of, or suitable for, being hugged

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: krammelig (da)
• Finnish: halattava (fi)
• French: douillet (fr), confortable (fr)
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: ölelnivaló (hu)

• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: abraçável (pt) m and f
• Russian: обнимаемый (ru) (obnimájemyj)
• Spanish: mullido (es), blando (es), abrazable (es)
• Swedish: kramgo (sv)