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snuggery

snuggery noun: a comfortable room or dwelling.

Noun

snuggery (plural snuggeries)

  1. (uncommon) A comfortable room or dwelling.
    • The accustomed coach life began again, now, and by midnight it almost seemed as if we never had been out of our snuggery among the mail sacks at all.1880, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Roughing It
    • She would go home to her own snuggery, with Linnet to share it, with a relieved mind if John Holmes might be taken into a family.1883, Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin, Miss Prudence

Examples of snuggery in a sentence

  • He moves across ward, and goes out on door of corridor) TOURNOUR Well, you're not getting back to your snuggery, my oul' cod.1916, Padraic Colum, Three Plays:
  • Bent was with Lettie when Cotherstone got home, and Cotherstone presently got the two of them into a little snuggery which he kept sacred to himself as a rule.1921, Joseph Smith Fletcher, The Borough Treasurer:

Forms of snuggery

pluralsnuggeries

Origin of snuggery

From snug + -ery.

Questions about snuggery

What does snuggery mean?
Snuggery means a comfortable room or dwelling.
How do you use snuggery in a sentence?
He moves across ward, and goes out on door of corridor) TOURNOUR Well, you're not getting back to your snuggery, my oul' cod.
What part of speech is snuggery?
Snuggery is a noun.
What is the plural of snuggery?
The plural of snuggery is snuggeries.

Words near snuggery in the dictionary

  1. snugged
  2. snugged down
  3. snugger
  4. snuggeries
  5. snuggers
  6. snuggery
  7. snuggest
  8. snuggie
  9. snuggies
  10. snugging
  11. snugging down

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