huggling

"Don't you wear your voice out tryin 'to tell me about my business in the hen-fightin' line," snapped the showman, fondly "huggling"

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

The stranger surveyed him for some time, huggling his head down in cowering fashion, so it seemed in the dusk.

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

This very blessed day I dined upon a delicate leg of Velsh mutton and cully-flower; and as for the oat-meal, I leave that to the sarvants of the country, which are pore drudges, many of them without shoes or stockings — Mr Clinker tells me here is a great call of the gospel; but I wish, I wish some of our family be not fallen off from the rite way — O, if I was given to tailbaring, I have my own secrets to discover — There has been a deal of huggling and flurtation betwixt mistress and an ould

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

Gertie stared down at the doll she was sanding; she wished Nancy Miller had kept still; there’d be more fighting and fussing among the children, and Clovis would quarrel at her a little more for “huggling up” to Mrs. Daly.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954