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Definition of Croodling
1. croodle [v] - See also: croodle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Croodling
Literary usage of Croodling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"And croodling shepherds bend along, Crouching to the whizzing storm. ... It's no
use your coming croodling up to me, ..."
2. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"The Little Dove, the Turtle Dove, or the croodling Dove has a sweet short song
... It is an old country saying that when you first hear the croodling of the ..."
3. Four Dialect Words: Clem, Lake, Nesh, and Oss : Their Modern Dialectal Range by Thomas Hallam (1885)
"J. Hunter: Nesk, easily distressed with cold ; much affected by it; fond of
croodling over the f>re. This, I believe, is its peculiar signification, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1874)
"... easily distressed with cold; much affected by it ; fond of croodling over the
fire. This, I believe, is its peculiar signification, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"She went up to the little hard conch, and murmured her inquiries over it with
that indescribable voice which belongs only to doves, and mothert croodling ..."
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