verb (common).—To indulge in sexual endearments. Also FIRKYTOODLING = preliminary caresses.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—To canoodle; to fiddle; to mess (or pull) about; to slewther (Irish); to spoon; to crooky; to fam; to dildo; to caterwaul; to feel; to finger; to fumble; to grope; to clitorize; to touch up; to tip the long (or middle) finger; to guddle (Scots).
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Mignoter (popular); jouer de la harpe (familiar: Le Roux, in Dictionnaire Comique, etc. (ii., p. 7), says: ‘Jouer de la harpe. Signifie auffi jouer des mains auprès d’une femme, la patiner, lui toucher la nature, la farfouiller avec les doigts’ [Théat. Ital.]); la petite oie (= preliminary favours); faire des horreurs (popular: des horreurs = broad or ‘blue’ talk; dire des horreurs = to talk bawd); bécoter (popular: = to make hot love); chouchauter (familiar: chouchou = darling).
SPANISH SYNONYMS. Garatusa (= an act of endearment); caroca (generally used in plural, carocas = endearments); amoricones (vulgar).
