canoodle

verb

1. (slang, transitive)To caress, fondle, or pet (someone); also, to have sexual intercourse with (someone); to make love with.

   “He’s got a big smile on his face—who’s he been canoodling recently?”

2. (figuratively, slang, transitive)To cajole or persuade (someone).

   ““There,” she cried triumphantly, when her labours were finished, “it [the drawing-room] looks different now, really quite effective and ‘canoodling’.””

   “And above all things, do not let her kanoodle you with soft words and looks of love, because she is full of 'em. If she can't scare you, with her indignation at the outrage of arresting and searching her, she will try to capture you and make you love her. You must be as firm as adamant.”

   “He canoodled my husband into believin' that the end of the world was comin' and it was his duty to give all his property away.”

3. (intransitive, slang)Of a person: to caress, fondle, or pet another person; of two people: to caress, fondle, or pet each other; also, to have sexual intercourse; to make love.

   “Young Robin and my daughter. / ‘Canoodling’ too. This must lead to manslaughter.”

   “Gerald Arbuthnot sat with her in the library all the time Jim was upstairs dying and they canoodled together on the sofa in front of the fire.”

   “My mouth opened, ostensibly to tell him to stop this right now, I refused to kanoodle with anyone who wasn't my true love. I'd never know what I would have actually said, because he crushed his lips on mine, and my brain short-circuited.”

   “Lydia nodded sagely. 'Our maid Doris canoodles with the postman when he comes round.' Agnes pulled a face. 'I don't know whether Megan canoodles, but she's in love with the coal-man. Personally, I do not know what she sees in him.[…]'”

   “As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand.”

noun

1. (slang)A caress, a cuddle, a hug.

   “She got on with the crewmen, all of whom liked her and at least one of whom, Pinky Montmorency, took more than a casual interest in her. Probably a bit of a canoodle now and then in the room behind the office.”

2. (slang)A donkey.
3. (slang)A foolish lover; also (generally) a fool.