canoodle BrE old-fashioned

Especially if you are canoodling with someone not your wife, or husband.

I did some of my best writing and canoodling there.

"It has to do with my lack of canoodling," he said.

Did you spend your honeymoon canoodling or moving into a new house?

Peter found him in his basket canoodling with his other half.

"My strong suit is not canoodling front," he said.

Things have heated up recently with the two canoodling in the streets of New York.

It is the sight of men canoodling that is still rare on television.

So I told myself I'd seen a couple of homosexuals canoodling in the movies, nothing more than that.

She saw him and Carol Burnett "canoodling" in a restaurant.

Not everyone is celebrating the idea of trendy couples canoodling over knishes.

They showed videos of themselves canoodling and getting connubial.

What if the tabloids report our new neighbor canoodling with someone equally news-unworthy?

The library door was open and there they were, kissing and canoodling."

"I like canoodling as much as the next man," Mat said, "but don't you think there are a few too many people watching?"

I would say they're starting to annoy me, except, the thing is, I'm canoodling too, with my gangly, 65-pound, 10-year-old son.

All around me friends are chatting, lovers are canoodling, and families are laughing.

Despite the rumors, the pair was photographed in Mexico snapping photos of each other and canoodling all over the seaside.

"Off canoodling with the soldiers, I expect.

Canoodling with the lady's maid was sordid.

Nobody is canoodling: even the saloon whores are underworked and bored.

It's an Australian girl Winkler was canoodling with now.

After breaking up this summer after three years of dating, the couple was reportedly spotted over the holidays canoodling in Paris.

Mark is canoodling with his soulmate.

However, if the latter was the case, the publicity they generated from being seen canoodling together certainly did not help this box-office bomb: