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Snugger vs Snuggery - What's the difference?

snugger | snuggery |

As an adjective snugger

is (snug).

As a noun snuggery is

a comfortable room or dwelling.

snugger

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (snug)

    • 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.

    • Anagrams

    *

    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. }}