huddle

Meanings

1. A dense and disorderly crowd.
2. A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
3. A session in which a group of journalists assemble in an informal, dense cluster to question a person of interest.
4. A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
5. A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.

1. To crowd together.
2. To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
3. To get together and discuss a topic.
4. To form a huddle.
5. To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
6. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together).
7. To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move.

1. Huddled, confused, congested.

1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Etymology

From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”).

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