Synonyms:
caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling
Meaning: affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)
Usage examples
"You shall never go away again," said the little fellow, hugging her tight.
"We are, indeed!" responded the Educated Insect, fairly hugging the stiff head of the Gump in his joy.
After performing this duty, she gently lets herself die, hugging her nest and turning into a shrivelled relic.
In a flash he was in the dark. Then he felt himself gently lifted until he was swaying in the air, with the folds of the leaf hugging him on all sides.
By the gate, hugging his mantle close, the watchman walked; at times he stopped, attracted by a stir among the sleeping herds, or by a jackal's cry off on the mountain-side.
Alyosha looked and the whole picture of what Snegiryov had described to him that day, how Ilusha, weeping and hugging his father, had cried, "Father, father, how he insulted you," rose at once before his imagination.