canoodle
英式音标：canoodle怎么读
美式音标：canoodle怎么读
canoodle词义
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vi. 爱抚；搂颈亲热vt. 爱抚而说服
词态变化
第三人称单数: canoodles;过去式: canoodled;过去分词: canoodled;现在分词: canoodling;
中文词源
canoodle 亲吻爱抚
可能来自canoe, 原指小情侣逃避长辈对婚姻的干涉，驾舟远离。
canoodle英文词源
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- canoodle (v.)
- "to indulge in caresses and fondling endearments" [OED], by 1850s, said to be U.S. slang, of uncertain origin. The earliest known sources are British, but they tend to identify the word as American. In the 1830s it seems to have been in use in Britain in a sense of "cheat" or "overpower." Related: Canoodled; canoodling.