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snug

/snʌɡ/

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Australia/snɐɡ/

snug adjective: warm and comfortable; cosy.

Adjective

snug (comparative snugger, superlative snuggest)

  1. Warm and comfortable; cosy.
    • I felt snug tucked up in my snug bed.
    • Now, if in a stage coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re-arrange their...1848 April – 1849 October, E[dward] Bulwer-Lytton, chapter I, in The Caxtons: A Family Picture, volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1849, →OCLC, part IX, page 88
    Synonyms:
    comfy, cosy, cushy, gemütlich
  2. Satisfactory.
    • I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but, in the cool tranquillity of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men's bonds, and mortgages, and title-deeds.1853, Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, page 2
  3. Close-fitting.
    • [I]t does make it clear that adding the keyboard case to the PinePhone will more than double the thickness. You may still be able to slide the whole thing into your pocket, but it’s likely to be more of a snug fit than when using the phone on its own.2021 April 23, Brad Linder, “PinePhone keyboard prototype transforms the Linux phone into a tiny Linux laptop”, in Linux Smartphones
  4. Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
    • Be ſure at Will’s the following Day, / Lie ſnug, and hear what Criticks ſay.1733, [Jonathan Swift], On Poetry: A Rapsody, Dublin; London: […] [R. Fleming] [a]nd sold by J. Huggonson, […], →OCLC, page 9, lines 116–117

Noun

snug (plural snugs)

  1. (UK) A small, comfortable back room in a pub.
  2. A lug.

Verb

snug (third-person singular simple present snugs, present participle snugging, simple past and past participle snugged)

  1. (transitive) To make secure or snug.
    • He snugged his Gun into its tunic holster, checked the scope on his Follower and left the room.1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam, published 1976, →ISBN, page 15
  2. To snuggle or nestle.
  3. (transitive) To make smooth.

Proper noun capitalized: Snug

Snug

  1. A suburb of the Huon Valley council area and the Kingborough council area, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

snug meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Persian

snug in Bengali

আরামদায়ক, উষ্ণ, আঁটসাঁট

snug in Malayalam

ഒതുക്കം, സുഖം, സുരക്ഷിതത്വമുള്ള, ഒതുങ്ങിയ, സുഖപ്രദമായ

snug in Kannada

ಬೆಚ್ಚಗೆ, ಬೆಚ್ಚನೆ, ಅಡಕ, ಹಿತವಾದ, ಸುಖಕರವಾದ, ಬೆಚ್ಚನೆಯ

snug in Persian

comfortable; cosy, cozy
دنج denj

Examples of snug in a sentence

  • Quickly snug everything down before the storm gets here.
  • These diapers are hourglass-shaped to eliminate folding and are gusseted for a snug fit around the legs.
  • He went in hotter than he could have, the Cforce snugging him into the bucket seat.

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Synonyms of snug

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Forms of snug

Adjective
comparativesnugger
superlativesnuggest
Noun
pluralsnugs
Verb
third-person singular presentsnugs
present participlesnugging
past participlesnugged
pastsnugged

Origin of snug

From dialectal English snug (“tight, handsome”), perhaps from Old Norse snøggr, from Proto-Germanic *snawwuz (“short, quick, fast”). Compare Icelandic snöggur (“smooth”), Danish snög (“neat”), Swedish snygg (“handsome, nice-looking”). Compare also English snudge (“to nestle, remain snug and quiet”).

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Questions about snug

What does snug mean?
Snug means warm and comfortable; cosy.
What is snug in Bengali?
Snug in Bengali is আরামদায়ক, উষ্ণ, আঁটসাঁট. See Snug meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is snug?
Snug can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce snug?
Snug is pronounced /snʌɡ/ (UK).

Words near snug in the dictionary

  1. snuffs it
  2. snuffs out
  3. snuffy
  4. snufter
  5. snufters
  6. snug
  7. snug as a bug
  8. snug as a bug in a rug
  9. snug down
  10. snug harbor
  11. snug harbour

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snug (page history and authors); Snug (page history and authors); snug (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snug (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snug (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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