cosy
Syllables: cos·yUK/ˈkəʊzi//ˈkoʊzi/
cosy adjective: affording comfort and warmth; snug; social and comfortable.
Adjective
cosy (comparative cosier, superlative cosiest)
- Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social and comfortable.
- 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 separated1836 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...
- 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.1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Our Foreign Correspondent”, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 120
- Warm and comfortable.
- I feel very cosy here in my bed.
- Synonyms:
- snug, snug as a bug in a rug
Noun
cosy (plural cosies)
- A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.
- A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).
- 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.
Verb
cosy (third-person singular simple present cosies, present participle cosying, simple past and past participle cosied)
- To become snug and comfortable.
- To become friendly with.
- He spent all day cosying up to the new boss, hoping for a plum assignment.
cosy meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
cosy in Tamil
- இன்பம்நல்கின்ற, வசதியான
cosy in Bengali
- আরামদায়ক, উষ্ণ
cosy in Malayalam
- comfortable, snug, warm
- സുഖദം, സുഖകരമായ, സൗകര്യമുള്ള, ഊഷ്മളമായ, സൗകര്യപ്രദമായ, സുഖദായകമായ
- intimate, relaxed, friendly
- സൗകര്യമായുള്ള, സ്വകാര്യമായ, സ്വസ്ഥമായ, സൗഹൃദപൂർണ്ണമായ
cosy in Kannada
- ಕವುದಿ, ಮುಚ್ಚಳ, ಅನುಕೂಲ, ಹಿತಕರ, ಸುಖಕರ, ಹದುಳದ
More languagesFewer languages
- cosy in Persian
- دنج denj
- cosy in Vietnamese
- ấm cúng
Examples of cosy in a sentence
- She had just finished knitting a tea cosy decorated with a floral pattern.
- The condominium lacks a proper dining room, but has a cosy dinette.
- If you two are cold, you can cosy up by the fireplace.
Synonyms of cosy
Forms of cosy
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | cosier |
| superlative | cosiest |
| alternative US | cozy |
| alternative Scotland | cosie |
| alternative form (archaic) | cosey |
| alternative form (archaic) | cozey |
| alternative form (archaic) | cozie |
| Noun | |
| plural | cosies |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cosies |
| present participle | cosying |
| past participle | cosied |
| past | cosied |
Origin of cosy
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”).
Words formed from cosy
Phrases with cosy
Words that rhyme with cosy
Questions about cosy
- What does cosy mean?
- Cosy means affording comfort and warmth; snug; social and comfortable.
- What is cosy in Tamil?
- Cosy in Tamil is இன்பம்நல்கின்ற, வசதியான. See Cosy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cosy?
- Cosy can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cosy?
- Cosy is pronounced /ˈkəʊzi/ (UK).
Words near cosy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cosy (page history and authors); cosy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cosy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cosy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); cosy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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