COSY (cosier, cosiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: cosier    , cosiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cosy mean? 

• COSY (noun)
  The noun COSY has 1 sense:

1. a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm

  Familiarity information: COSY used as a noun is very rare.

• COSY (adjective)
  The adjective COSY has 1 sense:

1. enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space

  Familiarity information: COSY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COSY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cosy; cozy; tea cosy; tea cozy

Hypernyms ("cosy" is a kind of...):

cloth covering (a covering made of cloth)

• COSY (adjective)

Comparative: cosier   
Superlative: cosiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space

Synonyms:

cosy; cozy; snug

Context example:

a snug little apartment

Similar:

comfortable; comfy (providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief ('comfy' is informal))

Derivation:

cosiness (a state of warm snug comfort)

 Context examples 

“In that case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this wind-swept market-place,” said he.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She led the way into a cosy room—the same which we had caught a glimpse of when last we came—and there, in the middle, was a table with white napery, and shining glass, and gleaming china, and red-cheeked apples piled upon a centre-dish, and a great plateful of smoking muffins which the cross-faced maid had just carried in.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Will you walk this way, ma'am? said the girl; and I followed her across a square hall with high doors all round: she ushered me into a room whose double illumination of fire and candle at first dazzled me, contrasting as it did with the darkness to which my eyes had been for two hours inured; when I could see, however, a cosy and agreeable picture presented itself to my view.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a good four miles of a walk, but when we reached it you would not wish to see a more cosy little house: all honeysuckle and creepers, with a wooden porch and lattice windows.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)