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cozy

cozy is the US standard spelling of cosy.

Meaning of cosy

Adjective

cosy (comparative cosier, superlative cosiest)

  1. (UK) 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...
    Synonyms:
    snug, hygge, homely
  2. (UK) Warm and comfortable.
    • I feel very cosy here in my bed.

See all 7 meanings of cosy

Forms of cozy

Adjective
comparativecozier
superlativecoziest
Noun
pluralcozies
Verb
third-person singular presentcozies
present participlecozying
past participlecozied
pastcozied

Words formed from cozy

Phrases with cozy

Questions about cozy

What is cozy the US standard spelling of?
Cozy is the US standard spelling of cosy.

Words near cozy in the dictionary

  1. Cozumel coati
  2. Cozumel coatis
  3. Cozumel Island coati
  4. Cozumel thrasher
  5. Cozumel thrashers
  6. cozy
  7. cozy catastrophe
  8. cozy catastrophes
  9. cozy up
  10. cozy up to
  11. cozying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cozy (page history and authors); cosy (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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