cosy

Meanings

Adjective

• Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social
• warm and comfortable

Noun

• A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.
• A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).
• A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.

Verb

• To become snug and comfortable.
• To become friendly with.

Origin

• From Scots cosie, from Old Scots colsie, but ultimate derivation is unknown. Possibly of North Germanic origin, such as Norwegian kose seg, from Old Norse kose sig, from koselig, koslig, perhaps ultimately from Old High German kōsa; see modern German kosen ("to cuddle").