Definitions for cosy

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cosy co·sy

Spelling: [koh-zee]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ zi/

Cosy is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in cosy (cosy).

Definitions for cosy

noun

1. a padded covering for a teapot, chocolate pot, etc., to retain the heat.

adjective

1. cozy.
2. snugly warm and comfortable:
3. convenient or beneficial, usually as a result of dishonesty or connivance:
4. suggesting opportunistic or conspiratorial intimacy:
5. discreetly reticent or noncommittal:

Verb phrases

1. cozy up (to), Informal. to move closer for comfort or affection: to try to become friendly or intimate in order to further one's own ends; attempt to ingratiate oneself:

verb (used with object)

1. to make more cozy (often followed by up):

Origin of cosy

First recorded in 1700-10

Examples for cosy

Marcus must do his work, but her vision of a cosy evening was sadly marred.

They could see him from the coach-roof fast asleep in his cosy bar.

I remembered how cosy I was when I slept in them on the snow.

And then the cheery sunshine of the cosy room began to fade away.

In a few minutes we were both inside old Jimmy's cosy quarters.

He returned to the cosy room of the hostelry to receive the bet he had won.

He spent his evenings when at Hawarden in a cosy corner of the library reading.

It was a raw evening out-of-doors, but it was cosy in there.

On the right hand, there was a cosy little breakfast-room, just about the size of this we are in.

It was in the gloaming, and the little sitting-room was warm and cosy.