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• n  young bird not yet fledged
• n  a young person of either sex
• v  move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
• v  lie in a sheltered position
• v  position comfortably

• He longs to be like them, so attuned to each other they could dance without music, as close as "spoons nestling in the wife's silver drawer.
• A small bookshop nestling in the corner of this teahouse makes it easy to spend time here.
• One was Tito's 75th birthday, when shopwindows blossomed with red-draped pictures of him, nestling among West German cameras and British textiles, and when 60,000 people .

• baby bird
• child
• kid
• youngster
• minor
• shaver
• nipper
• small fry
• tiddler
• tike
• tyke
• fry
• cuddle
• snuggle
• nestle
• nest
• nuzzle
• draw close

News & Articles

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• AMOCO Federal Credit Union adding seventh branch
  AMOCO’s seventh branch is nestling its way in at 2585 Bay Area Boulevard; the expected arrival is for the fall of 2013.
  June 20, 2013 - The Bay Area Citizen

Quotes

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• Tristram Hunt in New Statesman
  Typically, the pop historian Tristram Hunt writes in the Observer (23 November): "Nestling in the slipstream of American hegemony served us well in the 20th century. The bonds of culture, religion, language and ideology ensured Britain a postwar...
• John Updike in Scotsman
  As John Updike writes in his new book Due Consideration: "The average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback."
• Adrian Heaps in Globe and Mail
  People want to see a resolution to this thing, but they are nestling in to a new pattern,said Councillor Adrian Heaps of the strike that began June 22. "They don't like it but they are in it."