cuddle bug

A cuddly person or animal.

Noun

  1. A cuddly person or animal.
  2. A term of endearment, especially for a young girl or a female relationship partner.
    • That same night my cuddle bug climbed in bed with me, her sweet little face pressed close to mine on the pillow. Soon her wiggling woke me up enough that I got up to go to the bathroom. As soon as I lay back down next...
    • Pretty please.” the sweet pigtailed McKayla said, with sleep already evident in her loveable toddler voice, as her dad walked her up the stairs of their pristine Nebraska farm house. “Not tonight cuddle bug, your eyes...
    • Cassidy is our six-year-old. She is our little cuddle bug and daddy's girl. - 2013, N.M. Lander, The December Angel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 17:

Origin

From cuddle + bug (“enthusiast”).

Forms

cuddle bugs cuddlebug