| 释义 |
▪ I. coze, v.|kəʊz|
Also cose.
[app. ad. F. cause-r: cf. couse.]
intr. To converse in a friendly and familiar way; to have a long talk or chat.
1828Lyell Life, Lett. & Jrnls. I. viii. 183 Breakfasted with Murchison and..cozed with him till midnight. 1847–78Halliwell, Coze, to converse with earnestly and familiarly. South. 1874H. D. Beste Priestly Absol. (ed. 3) 56 We used to sit together hour after hour cozing: I believe I must thus spell the word we have derived from the French causer: no other word has the same meaning..And so another hour's coze.
▪ II. coze, n.
[app. f. coze v.: but may have been formed by associating cozy, cosy with F. causer, as if a ‘cosy chat’.]
A cosy, friendly talk.
1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park xxvi, Miss Crawford..proposed their going up into her room, where they might have a comfortable coze. 1874[see coze v.]. |