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Cosey vs Snug - What's the difference?

cosey | snug |

As adjectives the difference between cosey and snug

is that cosey is while snug is comfortable; cosy (cozy); satisfactory.

As a noun snug is

(british) a small, comfortable back room in a pub.

As a verb snug is

to make secure or snug.

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. }}

    snug

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A small, comfortable back room in a pub.
  • (engineering) A lug.

    • Related terms

    * lounge bar * public bar * saloon bar * vault

    Adjective

    (snugger)
  • Comfortable; cosy (cozy); satisfactory.
  • * 1853 , Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener'', in ''Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0146000129, page 2:
    • I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but, in the cool tranquillity of a snug' retreat, do a ' snug business among rich men's bonds, and mortgages, and title-deeds.
  • Close-fitting.
  • Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
  • * Jonathan Swift:
    • Lie snug , and hear what critics say.

    Derived terms

    * snugly * snug as a bug in a rug

    Synonyms

    * cosy (cozy)

    Related terms

    * snuggle * snuggly

    Verb

  • To make secure or snug.
  • * 1967 , edition, ISBN 0553025171, page 15:
    • He snugged his Gun into its tunic holster, checked the scope on his Follower and left the room.
  • To snuggle or nestle.

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