hugger

1. 1.

   a person who hugs

   Broaderperson

Other forms of hugger

plural

huggers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hugger

What does hugger mean?

hugger means "a person who hugs".

How many syllables are in hugger?

hugger has 2 syllables: hug-ger. The stress falls on "hug". In IPA it is /ˈhʌɡɚ/.

Is hugger a common word?

hugger is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.