snugness

snug¹ (sn

adj. snug·ger, snug·gest

1. Comfortably sheltered; cozy.

2. Small but well arranged: a snug apartment. See Synonyms at comfortable.

a. Closely secured and well built; compact: a snug little sailboat.

b. Close-fitting: a snug jacket.

c. Nautical Seaworthy.

a. Offering freedom from financial worry: a snug living.

b. Safe; secure: a snug hideout.

v. snugged, snug·ging, snugs

v.tr.

To make snug or secure.

v.intr.

To nestle; snuggle.

Phrasal Verb:

snug down Nautical

To prepare (a vessel) to weather a storm, as by taking in sail or securing movable gear.

[Of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish snygg, neat, trim.]

snug, snugly adv.

snugness n.

snug² (sn

n. Chiefly British

A very small private room in a pub.

[Short for snuggery.]

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Noun

snugness - a state of warm snug comfort

cosiness, coziness

comfort, comfortableness - a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain; "he is a man who enjoys his comfort"; "she longed for the comfortableness of her armchair"

Translations

snugness

n (= cosiness, comfort) → Behaglichkeit f, → Gemütlichkeit f; (= cosiness and warmth) → mollige or behagliche Wärme; (= sheltered nature) → Geschütztheit f; (= closeness of fit: of garment) → guter Sitz

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comfort
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cosiness
Coziness
snug
warmth

For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

You have a comfortable idea of snugness, you have, sir.

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context

This haven was divided from the rough world by a glass partition and a half-door, with a leaden sill upon it for the convenience of resting your liquor; but, over this half-door the bar's snugness so gushed forth that, albeit customers drank there standing, in a dark and draughty passage where they were shouldered by other customers passing in and out, they always appeared to drink under an enchanting delusion that they were in the bar itself.

Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context

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