firkytoodle

English

Verb

firkytoodle (third-person singular simple present firkytoodles, present participle firkytoodling, simple past and past participle firkytoodled)

1. (obsolete) To cuddle or fondle amorously.
   • 1983, Joanna Dessau, Lord of the Ladies, page 73:

     So we frolicked all day and firkytoodled all night.

   • 1993, Benoîte Groult, Salt on Our Skin, page 6:

     All the same, there's no way I can tell my story without describing the sin of firkytoodling, as sexual play was known in the sixteenth century.

   • 2013, Lesley M. M. Blume, Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition:

     Amorous couples have “firkytoodled” for years, and “ribs” (wives) have given “curtain lectures” (chastisements issued to world—weary husbands at bedtime) for millennia.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary