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cozy
[ koh-zee ]
adjective
- comfortable and snug:
We live in a cozy little house with a small garden in the back.
Synonyms: , , ,
- convenient or beneficial, usually as a result of dishonesty or connivance:
A very cozy agreement between competing firms had kept the industry profitable for years.
- suggesting opportunistic or conspiratorial intimacy:
The exposé revealed a cozy relationship between lobbyists and some politicians.
- discreetly reticent or noncommittal:
The administrators are remaining cozy about which policy they plan to adopt.
- relating to a genre of mystery stories with little suspense, explicit violence, or sexual content, often also having amateur sleuths and idyllic, intimate settings:
I read lots of different books, but I like cozy mysteries best.
Charming characters and just the right amount of danger make this cozy series a delight to read.
noun
- a padded covering for a teapot or coffeepot to retain the heat of the contents.
- a mystery story with little suspense, explicit violence, or sexual content, often also having amateur sleuths and idyllic, intimate settings:
I started out reading cozies and moved on to the hard-boiled detective novels.
verb (used with object)
- to make more warm or comfortable (often followed by up ):
New curtains would cozy the room up a bit.
verb phrase
- Informal.
- to move closer for comfort or affection:
Come over to the fire and cozy up a bit.
- to try to become friendly or intimate in order to further one's own ends; attempt to ingratiate oneself:
He's always cozying up to the boss.
cozy
/ ˈ°ìəʊ³úɪ /
adjective
- the usual US spelling of cosy
Derived Forms
- ˈ³¦´Ç³ú¾±±ô²â, adverb
- ˈ³¦´Ç³ú¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦´Ç·³ú¾±Â·±ô²â adverb
- ³¦´Ç·³ú¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cozy1
Example Sentences
The open-format space boasts a cozy book nook with scores of Black photography books.
“The plants make me feel cozy,†she says.
Griffiths doesn’t fight against the formula, he just takes our expectations for every scene and gingers them up a little, the movie version of a cozy sweater threaded with tinsel.
“Ludwig,†created and written by Mark Brotherhood, is a six-episode cozy mystery in which each episode’s one-off cases are the fancy dress to a serialized mystery connecting the season.
During a Sunday in mid-March, Taylor worked his way down a row of cozy homes in east Oakland on a door-knocking mission to whip up votes.
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