hugger

From hug +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɡɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɡə/

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)

hugger (plural huggers)

1. One who hugs or embraces.
   • 1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 16:

     When the pub downstairs closed, a contingent of straight couples ranging in age from 16 to 60 arrived to dance, though they were still safely outnumbered by same-sex huggers and smoochers.

   • 2012, Joy Dettman, Wind in the Wires, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 28:

     Jenny hadn’t been a natural hugger, but she’d been a smiler, a handholder.

hugger (third-person singular simple present huggers, present participle huggering, simple past and past participle huggered)

1. (obsolete) To conceal; to lurk in ambush.
   • 1567, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors:

     Such a one they saw there lyrkinge and huggeringe two houres before.

• “hugger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

hugger

1. present of hugge

hugger

1. present of hugge

hugger

1. present indicative of hugga