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coze

/kəʊz/

coze is the alternative form of cose.

Meaning of cose

Verb

cose (third-person singular simple present coses, present participle cosing, simple past and past participle cosed)

  1. (intransitive) To make oneself cosy; to be snug.
    • Told her of the bad cooking here; that I could get nothing to eat here or, sometimes, even at Shibden. We agreed we would have things nice sometime, our tastes suit & we are very thoroughly happy together. We cosed very comfortably.a 1821, Anne Lister, quoted in 1992, Helena Whitbread, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840 (page 171)

Noun

coze (plural cozes)

  1. (nonce-word) A cosy, friendly talk.
    • September 16, 1813, Jane Austen, letter to Henrietta Street
      We are now all four of us young ladies sitting round the circular table in the inner room writing our letters, while the two brothers are having a comfortable coze in the room adjoining.

Forms of coze

Verb
third-person singular presentcozes
present participlecozing
past participlecozed
pastcozed
Noun
pluralcozes

Words that rhyme with coze

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Questions about coze

What does coze mean?
Coze means a cosy, friendly talk.
What is coze the alternative form of?
Coze is the alternative form of cose.
What part of speech is coze?
Coze is a noun.
How do you pronounce coze?
Coze is pronounced /kəʊz/.
What is the plural of coze?
The plural of coze is cozes.

Words near coze in the dictionary

  1. Cozads
  2. Cozart
  3. Cozarts
  4. Cozby
  5. Cozbys
  6. coze
  7. cozed
  8. cozen
  9. cozenage
  10. cozenages
  11. cozened

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coze (page history and authors); cose (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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