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Dwelling vs Snuggery - What's the difference?

dwelling | snuggery |

As nouns the difference between dwelling and snuggery

is that dwelling is a habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile while snuggery is a comfortable room or dwelling.

As a verb dwelling

is present participle of lang=en.

dwelling

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dwelling, . More at dwell.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A habitation; a place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings . The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
    The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.
    Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. -
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * dwellinghouse * dwelling place * lake dwelling: prehistoric structure
    References
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    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)
    • I was dwelling in the cave.

    snuggery

    English

    Noun

    (snuggeries)
  • A comfortable room or dwelling.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 27, author=Liesl Schillinger, title=Probing the Charred Ruins of Romance, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=As so often happens in the retelling of grand and not-so-grand amours alike, her re-creation of the affair is trite and teeny-boppery, an effect magnified by her inclusion of scrapbook snapshots ? her puffy first boyfriend (“giving up my virginity was special”); a 1972 wedding snap of “Sheryl and Ronnie” (they are still married); a shot of the Upper East Side snuggery where she and Bernie hooked up; and a collage of the “iconic” lipstick building where she and Bernie first met. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1883, author=Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin, title=Miss Prudence, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=She would go home to her own snuggery , with Linnet to share it, with a relieved mind if John Holmes might be taken into a family. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1895, author=Le Gallienne, Richard, title=The Book-Bills of Narcissus, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=A purchaser for one of those aforesaid treatises on farriery just then coming in, dislodged us; so, bidding Samuel good-bye--he and Narcissus already arranging for 'a night'--we obeyed a mutual instinct, and presently found ourselves in the snuggery of a quaint tavern, which was often to figure hereafter in our sentimental history, though probably little in these particular chapters of it. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Padraic Colum, title=Three Plays, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He moves across ward, and goes out on door of corridor) TOURNOUR Well, you're not getting back to your snuggery , my oul' cod. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Joseph Smith Fletcher, title=The Borough Treasurer, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Bent was with Lettie when Cotherstone got home, and Cotherstone presently got the two of them into a little snuggery which he kept sacred to himself as a rule. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1880, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=Roughing It, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The accustomed coach life began again, now, and by midnight it almost seemed as if we never had been out of our snuggery among the mail sacks at all. }}