UK, Dialectal, Obsolete To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
Far ben thy dark green plantin's shade The cushat croodles am'rouslya. 1810, Robert Tannahill, The Wood O' Craigie Lea:
Oh! that I had wings-not as a dove , to fly home to its nest and croodle there1858 January, Charles Kingsley, “My Winter-Garden”, in Frasers Magazine:
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Mrs. Dootson bridged the other half, and, croodling down to Meg's height, she somewhat forced the friendship1898, William Edwards Tirebuck, Meg of the Scarlet Fool:
[A]nd no sound falls on my ears, except the distant roar of a passing train, the song of linnets, and croodle of turtle-dove and cushat.1888, Gordon Stables, In Touch with Nature: Tales and Sketches from the Life, page 46:
[A] third-storey apartment under the eaves loud with the croodles and canoodling of amorous pigeons.1997, Aidan Higgins, Flotsam and Jetsam, page 265: