Definitions for snug

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Spelling: [snuhg]

IPA: /snʌg/

Snug is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in snug (gnsu).

Definitions for snug

noun

1. British. a small, secluded room in a tavern, as for private parties.

adverb

1. in a snug manner:

adjective

1. warmly comfortable or cozy, as a place, accommodations, etc.:
2. fitting closely, as a garment:
3. more or less compact or limited in size, and sheltered or warm:
4. trim, neat, or compactly arranged, as a ship or its parts.
5. comfortably circumstanced, as persons.
6. pleasant or agreeable, especially in a small, exclusive way:
7. enabling one to live in comfort:
8. secret; concealed; well-hidden:

verb (used with object)

1. to make snug.
2. Nautical. to prepare for a storm by taking in sail, lashing deck gear, etc. (usually followed by down).

verb (used without object)

1. to lie closely or comfortably; nestle.

Origin of snug

1575-85; perhaps Old Norse snøggr short-haired; cognate with Swedish snygg neat

Examples for snug

Eating turkey and pie in their home districts, no doubt, snug by the fire as visions of spending cuts dance in their heads.

It was a few weeks before Christmas but not all creatures were snug in bed.

I feel as if there would be nothing so snug and comfortable as to die at once.'

And when you told me about the marriage, did not I say that I saw our way to a snug thing for life?

We sit in the snug upstairs, drinking red wine and avoiding the storms raging outside.

The thick plastic black box, the size of a pack of cigarettes, is snug up against his tiny ankle.

It wouldn't be bad to keep a chance like this snug in the family.

Shall get to Ostend, or Rotterdam, safe and snug; thence to Paris.

There was the little house, white as paint could make it, and snug in bowering foliage.

And great men set out from port in conditions that keep lesser men—such as myself—safe and snug on shore.