cosy

The spelling cosy predominates in British English, and cozy in American English.

• cozy (North America, Philippines)
• cosie (Scotland)
• cozie
• cosey (archaic)
• cozey

From Scots cosie, from Old Scots colsie, but ultimate derivation is unknown. Possibly of North Germanic origin, such as Norwegian kose seg (“to have a cozy time”), from Old Norse kose sig, from koselig, koslig, perhaps ultimately from Old High German kōsa; see modern German kosen (“to cuddle”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊzi/
• (US) enPR: kō'-zē, IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊzi/

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• Rhymes: -əʊzi

cosy (comparative cosier, superlative cosiest)

1. (of a place or object) Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social and comfortable.

   Synonyms: snug, hygge, homely

   Hypernyms: comfortable, comfy

   Hyponym: gemütlich

   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “How the Pickwickians Made and Cultivated the Acquaintance of a Couple of Nice Young Men Belonging to One of the Liberal Professions; […]”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 315:

     Mr. Pickwick expressed the pleasure it would afford him to meet the medical fellows; and Mr. Bob Sawyer had informed him that he meant to be very cosey, and that his friend Ben was to be one of the party, they shook hands and separated

   • 1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Our Foreign Correspondent”, in Little Women: […], part second, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 120:

     One of us must marry well; Meg didn't, Jo won't, Beth can't, yet,—so I shall, and make everything cosy all round.

2. (of a person) Warm and comfortable.

   Synonyms: snug, snug as a bug in a rug

   I feel very cosy here in my bed.

cosy (plural cosies)

1. A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.
2. A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).
3. A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.

cosy (third-person singular simple present cosies, present participle cosying, simple past and past participle cosied)

1. To become snug and comfortable.
2. To become friendly with.

   He spent all day cosying up to the new boss, hoping for a plum assignment.

• cosy along
• cosy up
• cosy up to
• cozen

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Cosy”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
• Annandale, C., Ogilvie, J. (1907). The Student's English Dictionary. Ireland: Blackie, p. 164

• Coys, Soc'y, coys

From English.

• IPA^(key): /ko.zi/

cosy (plural cosys)

1. cosy

cosy m (uncountable)

1. cosy

• “cosy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.