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snugness|ˈsnʌgnɪs|
[f. as prec.]
1. The state, condition, or quality of being snug or comfortable; cosiness. Also personif.
1766Goldsm. Vic. W. iv, My house..was covered with thatch, which gave it an air of great snugness. 1766Cowper Wks. (1837) XV. 11, I rejoice with you in the snugness of your situation. c1790Warton Phaeton & One-horse Chair 70 O'er me soft Snugness spreads her wings. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 179 The fields..are so small as to give them a peculiar air of snugness. 1850Hawthorne Scarlet Letter Introd. (1879) 12 All the softness and snugness of an eiderdown pillow. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life xii. iii. 447 There is a well-known objection to extensive views as wanting in snugness and comfort.
†2. Secrecy, reticence. Obs.
1778F. Burney Diary Sept., Had I been allowed to preserve the snugness I had planned, I need not have concerned myself at all about its fate.
3. Neatness, trimness; compactness, closeness.
1799[A. Young] Agric. Linc. 325 Though the Lincoln had the thicker pelt, and more wool, the thickness and snugness of frame of the Leicester made amends. 1802Naval Chron. VII. 178 She..has all the snugness on the water of a large frigate. |