cosilyadv.
/ˈkəʊzɪli/ In a cosy manner; snugly and comfortably.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adverb]
softOE
at likinga1398
commodiously1420
beinly?a1500
at home1531
in sufficiencec1550
softly1567
snugly1590
easefully1611
comfortably1634
cosily1721
lown1724
snug1766
lownly1788
tosh1808
comfily1917
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adverb] > in other specific style
naturally1557
licentiously1561
tragically1567
cosily1721
mock-heroically1846
naturalistically1864
declamatorily1898
1721 A. Ramsay To Æolus 17 Canty and cosily I lye.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 154 Syne coziely, aboon the door, Wi' cannie care, they've plac'd them.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 14 [He] would take his seat quietly and cozily by the fire.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant II. iv. 103 She had seen the little girl..cosily in bed.
1955 H. Croome Mountain & Molehill x. 102 ‘I am so thankful,’ she said, ‘that it was you and not one of the others who got that letter of mine this morning.’ She laughed cosily.
1959 N. Marsh False Scent (1960) viii. 229 ‘Now, now!’ Fox rumbled cosily.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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