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Cosey vs Posey - What's the difference?

cosey | posey |

As adjectives the difference between cosey and posey

is that cosey is obsolete spelling of cozy while posey is pretentious.

cosey

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Harriet Jacobs, title=Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The old ladies had cosey times together. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=Jack London, title=, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It was dry and cosey . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1906, author=Mabel Osgood Wright, title=The Garden, You, and I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Preferable is the cosey English walled villa of the middle class, even though it be a bit stuffy and suggestive of earwigs. }}

    posey

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (British, informal) Pretentious

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