The word 'hugging' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a physical act of embracing someone. For example, "He was so moved by the news, he gave her a tight hugging before leaving."
She said David Cameron was a "guy who put a wind turbine on his house and now backs a moratorium on wind and a guy who was hugging a husky but now talks about 'cutting the green crap'".
Also, as this excellent Atlantic piece points out, there's a slightly uneasy "white saviour" theme throughout, best exemplified by a genuinely ghastly scene where the family tell the slaves that they're letting them go, everybody starts hugging and, quick as a flash, one of the freed women starts singing Amazing Grace.
Jeblawi, bruised and dehydrated, has to be restrained from excitedly hugging every European she sees.
Lucas's nose is red, and she's hugging herself tight in her winter coat.
Likewise, his astonishing photograph of Belmondo's naked torso hugging Seberg in a bedroom scene.
In 2006, Cameron sought to redefine the Tory image by hugging a husky and talking green.
Its fortunes were boosted when, in 2009, its cinemas did 3D screenings of "Avatar", a film about tree-hugging blue aliens.
The border between Israel and a new Palestine would follow the pre-1967 line, with adjustments to accommodate some of the bigger border-hugging Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and land-swaps to compensate the Palestinians for those adjustments.
In April, Mercer Investment Consulting asked 300 pension funds and investment managers in London whether benchmark-hugging was a problem; 89% said yes.Pension funds are also planning to move a lot more money into hedge funds.
But the government, wary of being accused of panda-hugging by supporters of Taiwanese independence, has said it will have to examine whether it is appropriate to allow the importation of such an endangered species.
MOVING troops across southern Afghanistan usually involves a giddy mountain-hugging flight in a transport helicopter preferably escorted by a mean Apache attack helicopter.
