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Cozy vs Mozy - What's the difference?

cozy | mozy |

As adjectives the difference between cozy and mozy

is that cozy is affording comfort and warmth; snug; social while mozy is shaggy; hairy.

As verbs the difference between cozy and mozy

is that cozy is to become snug and comfortable while mozy is .

As a noun cozy

is a padded or knit covering to keep an item warm, especially a teapot or egg.

cozy

English

Alternative forms

* cosy (UK) * cozey * cosey * cozie * cosie

Adjective

(er)
  • Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social
  • * 1785', , ''Holy Fair'' - While some are ' cozie i' the neuk, / An' forming assignations / To meet some day

    • Synonyms

    * snug

    Derived terms

    * cozy up

    Hyponyms

    *

    Noun

    (cozies)
  • A padded or knit covering to keep an item warm, especially a teapot or egg.
  • A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).

    • Derived terms

    * tea cozy * egg cozy

    Verb

  • To become snug and comfortable.
  • To become friendly with.
    • He spent all day cozying up to the new boss, hoping for a plum assignment.

    mozy

    English

    Adjective

  • Shaggy; hairy.
  • * 1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the ... - Page 223
    • The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands.
  • Musty; starting to decay; tainted.
  • * 1890, John Drummond Robertson, Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester - Page 197
    • Mozy , adj., ...also, as applied to meat, fruit, &c., tainted, musty, beginning to decay.
  • Faded; dingy.
  • * 1888, Sidney Oldall Addy, A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield - Page 152
    • A calf whose skin is of a dirty grey colour is said to have a mozy look.
  • Tough, as fruit when frostbitten.
  • * 1887, Thomas Darlington , The Folk-speech of South Cheshire - Page 266
    • Mozy [moa-zi] , adj. juiceless, tough, as apples, pears, turnips, &c., are when frostbitten.
  • (archaic) Muggy.
  • * 1890, John Drummond Robertson, Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester - Page 197
    • Mozy , adj., ' muggy,' as applied to weather, warm and damp ;

    Verb

  • * 1906, Texas Medical Association, Texas State Journal of Medicine - Page 9
    • And does the gastric unpleasantness still linger around the cardiac end, or has it migrated to the pylorus, and in doing so, did it seem to mozy along the lesser or greater stomachal curvature?
  • * 1919, National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (U.S.) - Marine engineers, Journal of Proceedings of the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial ... - Page 10
    • ...who drove into a hill town with his ox cart, and they were mozying along the road, and he suddenly came face to face with a new sign he had...
  • * 1938, Zane Grey, Raiders of Spanish Peaks - Page 7
    • Mozy along.
  • * 2005, R. E. Wilburn, Lo, These Many Years - Page 89
    • Patina had the baby; Louisa was going off to college to be a pre-med student, and Charlotte just mozied along.

    See also

    * tozy-mozy