Chuzzle

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To force or pack something tightly into a space, especially by stuffing food into the mouth
2. Describing the act of crowding or filling a container or mouth with more than it can comfortably hold
3. Stuffing or cramming material, most often food, into an enclosed space in a greedy or hurried way

Etymology: "Chuzzle" is a rare English word, first recorded in the early 1600s, meaning to hoard or to chuckle over something, and it survives mainly in dialect and in the poetry of the Lake District. Its precise origin is uncertain: most dictionaries treat it as a variant or alteration of "chuck" or of the verb "chuckle," with the idea of clucking over or fondly hugging a possession or child. The sense of fussing over someone, in the way a hen gathers chicks, fits this link well. The word is largely unchanged in meaning since its first appearances, which is unusual for a term that has spent four centuries mostly out of common use. It has no clear cognates in other languages that can be confirmed, so the connection to "chuck" and "chuckle" remains a plausible likelihood rather than a settled fact.