huggably

English

Etymology

From huggable +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɡ.ə.blɪ/

Adverb

huggably (comparative more huggably, superlative most huggably)

1. Friendly and approachably
   • 2000, Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, page 237:

     His eyes are brown bu they look coal-black, at once menacing and pathetic, set into a mischievous baby face whose expression can change in an instant from huggably endearing and childlike to slaveringly insane.

Related terms

• hug
• huggable
• huggableness