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"Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

It occurs to me that "guddling" (and likewise "guddle") is a funny-sounding word.

Yeah, it sounds a little like "cuddling" as spoken by somebody with a bad cold. A cold they caught, perhaps, lying half-in/half-out of a stream, doing something fishy. But I've no clue as to the actual etymology.