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单词 cosy
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cosycozyadj.n.

Brit. /ˈkəʊzi/, U.S. /ˈkoʊzi/
Forms: Also 1700s Scottish colsie, 1700s–1800s cosie, cozie, 1800s cosey.
Etymology: Originally Scots (and perhaps northern English): derivation unknown. Guesses are that it is connected with cosh n.1, or with Gaelic còsagach ‘full of holes or crevices; sheltered, snug, warm’, < còsag little hole, crevice, diminutive of còs hollow, hole. But neither of these seems tenable, the phonetic form and the sense both presenting difficulties. Apparently the primary sense was of personal condition, not of places or circumstances.
The normal spelling in Britain is cosy, and in the U.S. cozy.
A. adj.
1. Of persons: Comfortable from being warm and sheltered; snug.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adjective]
snug1630
cosy1728
comfortable1770
comfy1829
podded1889
on (also in) (the) plush1911
a1665 W. Guthrie Serm. Regen. (1709) 24 When Israel was Colsie at Home.
1728 A. Ramsay Last Speech Miser in Poems II. vi To keep you cosie in a hoord.
1744 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 311 Where I hope you'll be cosy and free from bustle and fatigue.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxix. 315 After Mr. Bob Sawyer had informed him that he meant to be very cosey.
1865 Englishman's Mag. Jan. 7 He lay warm and cozy.
2. Of a place: (a) sheltered and thus warm; this passes into the sense of: (b) sheltering, keeping warm, in which one is warm and comfortable. Often both notions are involved.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adjective] > snug or comfortable (of places)
lithe1488
lowna1522
bein1533
close1571
snod1695
snugging1701
snugc1718
tosie1720
canny1737
cosy1786
fiel1792
snuggish1818
familyish1824
nest-like1864
hygge1963
1786 R. Burns Poems 74 Then canie, in some cozie place, They close the day.
1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 12 Firs the high craigs cleading, Raisd a' round a cozey screen.
1806 W. Wordsworth Addr. to Child Here's a cozie warm house for Edward and me.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. 219 Frank leaned back in a cosey arm-chair.
1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 105 The rooms so cozy and nice.
3. Of a job: = cushy adj.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > doing effortlessly > involving little effort > of work or occupation
cushy1895
cushiony1908
cosy1915
1915 D. O. Barnett Let. 30 June in In Happy Memory 198 That's a particularly cosy job, as he lives at brigade H.Q. and does nothing.
4. Warmly intimate or friendly; sentimental; frequently in pejorative sense: complacent, smug, unadventurous, parochial; = comfortable adj. 10b.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [adjective]
smug1551
fat1598
self-contented1631
self-pleased1633
self-satisfied1653
self-contenta1656
self-complacent1736
self-gratulating1755
complacent1767
well1773
self-congratulatory1798
comfortable1856
paddy1865
Podsnappian1866
cosy1927
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adjective] > intimate or familiar
homelya1387
familiarc1405
familarya1500
internal1581
intrinsical1602
intimated1606
intrinsic1613
intimea1618
intimous1619
domestica1631
intimate1635
pack1686
thickc1756
throng1768
versant1787
solid1882
chummy1884
tutoyant1899
cosy1927
schmoozy1954
tight1956
1927 M. Beerbohm Let. 2 Oct. (1964) 266 We liked her very much. She isn't exactly cosy, but she's very spirited.
1943 Horizon Mar. 197 Hence arose an interesting theatrical phenomenon—the cult of the Cosy Play. In this type of drama the characters bore a recognizable likeness to the members of the audience..but wiser, more humorous, better-looking.
1958 Observer 25 May 16/7 Cosy little murder mystery.
1959 Daily Mail 20 Feb. 8/1 It was a cosy chat—Mrs Betjeman..is a cosy person.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 May 318/3 If her tone in discussing the Brontë girls becomes at times a trifle too cosy, where actual research is involved she has shown herself to be commendably austere.
1960 C. P. Snow Affair v. 49 It was mildly ironic..to find her set on seeing him a cosy, bourgeois success.
5. cosy corner [compare A. 3] , an upholstered seat which fits into a corner of a room; such a corner, cosily furnished; also attributive and figurative; cosy stove (proprietary name), a free-standing enclosed stove.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > [noun] > specific part of
ruellec1400
nook?a1425
ingle-nook1773
area1839
living space1882
slip1886
cosy corner1894
bed-space1895
diner1907
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun] > in corner
cosy corner1894
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > stove > types of stove
bath-stove1591
pech1591
stewpot1688
kitchen range1733
cockle1775
copper-hole1785
Franklin stove1787
kitchen stove1795
gas stove1818
calefactor1831
thermometer-stove1838
Vesta1843
airtight1844
ship-hearth1858
base-burner1861
wood-stove1875
box1878
tortoise1884
wood-burner1901
Quebec heater1903
pot belly1920
cosy stove1926–7
oil stove1934
paraffin stove1995
1894 Country Gentlemen's Catal. 115/1 Our patent cosy corners. Elegant and comfortable additions to any room.
1898 A. Bennett Man From North xvi. 138 The ‘cosy corner’, an angle of the room furnished with painted mirrors and a bark bench of fictitious rusticity.
a1899 in J. Gloag Victorian Comfort (1961) iii. 73 (advt.) Handsome Enamelled White or any colour Cosy Corner, complete with drapery of cretonne.
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 279 The ‘cozy’ stove. Continuous burning.
1950 D. Gascoyne Vagrant 8 Lying resigned in cosy-corner crow's-nest.
1955 M. Hastings Cork & Serpent viii. 98 There was a cosy stove in the grate.
1956 B. Goolden At Foot of Hills vii. 172 In the dining-room the doors of the cosy stove were closed.
1968 C. P. Bracken Rom. Ring ii. 7 Cosy corner was the correct period terminology for the chintz-covered sofa and low table.
B. n.
1. (See quot.) Obsolete.
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1856 Engineer I. 117/1 (title) Patent Cosy Express. Mr. H. R. Abraham's Patent Cosy Carriage.]
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Cosy, the name given to a small kind of omnibus recently introduced.
2. A quilted covering placed over a teapot to retain the heat; more fully, tea-cosy. A similar covering to keep an egg warm, an egg-cosy. [Known to me about 1848. F. Hall.]
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > table linen > [noun] > others
table napkin1564
tea-cosy1863
tray-cloth1889
egg-cosy1894
shower1931
1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) ix. §342. 274 It is not unusual to preserve the heat of teapots by a woollen covering, but the ‘cosy’ must fit loosely.
1886 Daily News 28 Dec. 7/4 (advt.) Cushions, Tea Coseys, Antimacassars, etc.
in combination.1890 H. S. Hallett 1000 Miles 250 We carried a cosie-covered Chinese teapot.
3. A cosy seat; spec. a canopied seat for two, occupying a corner of a room. [Called in French causeuse, which has perhaps suggested cosy in English.]
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > for two persons
conversation-chair1793
confidante1794
sociable1811
causeuse1844
love seat1847
tête-à-tête1864
cosy1876
two-seater1891
marquise1904
1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 65 The salon itself..is a pleasant room, gaily painted, with cosies all round it and a huge mass of gorgeous flowers in the centre.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

cosyv.

Brit. /ˈkəʊzi/, U.S. /ˈkoʊzi/
Forms: Also cozie, cozy.
Etymology: < cosy adj.
1. intransitive. To be comfortable, snug. Obsolete dialect.
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1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. at Cozie While topers cozie in the neuk.
2. transitive. To comfort, reassure; to delude. Also with along. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > promise, ground of hope > foster hopes [verb (transitive)] > encourage
flatter1377
cosy1939
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > speech intended to deceive > beguile, cajole [verb (transitive)]
bicharrea1100
fodea1375
begoc1380
inveiglea1513
to hold in halsc1560
to get within ——1572
cajole1645
to cajole with1665
butter1725
veigle1745
flummer1764
to get round ——1780
to come round ——1784
to get around ——1803
flatter-blind1818
salve1825
to come about1829
round1854
canoodle1864
moody1934
fanny1938
cosy1939
mamaguy1939
snow1943
snow-job1962
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > promise, ground of hope > foster hopes [verb (transitive)] > false or uncertain
flatter1377
feed1530
dangle1871
cosy1960
1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle xxvi. 262 But I cosied myself thinking maybe I was shot by too much nerve strain at the office.
1960 M. Sharp Something Light xxiv. 212 Her impulse, on purely selfish grounds, was to cosy Mr Clark on every point.
1965 Observer 15 Aug. 17/6 The important thing is ‘to cosy along’ the prospective victim for the camera.
3. intransitive. Colloquial phrase (chiefly U.S.) to cosy up to: to snuggle up to; to become friendly with; to ingratiate oneself with (someone).
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the mind > emotion > love > loved one > gain the favour or engage the affections of [verb (intransitive)] > ingratiate oneself with
to cosy up to1937
the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)] > settle in a snug or affectionate manner > snuggle up to
to cosy up to1937
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour with [verb (transitive)]
flatter1340
to claw the back ofc1394
to pick a thank (also thanks)c1422
clawc1425
to claw by the sleeve1509
to claw by the backa1542
fawna1568
to make or pay (one's) court to1590
adulate1612
hug1622
sycophant1637
to make up to1701
to whip it in with1702
cultivate1706
incense1708
to wheedle in with1726
to grandfather up1747
slaver1794
toad1802
to play up to ——1809
nut1819
toady1827
bootlick1846
to suck up to1860
lickspittle1886
jolly1890
bum-suck1918
arse-lick1919
to cosy up to1937
brown-nose1948
ass-kiss1951
ass-lick1962
love-bomb1976
1937 News-Week 9 Jan. 37 When the New Hampshire native cozies up to the fireplace in his Washington home and decides to talk, he usually talks about one subject: solar engines.
1966 D. Skirrow It won't get you Anywhere xxxix. 193 Fluck had cosied right up to Sullivan, hoping to drive Ball mad with jealousy.
1966 Observer 13 Feb. 13/4 Civil servants are cosying up to those they think might be their next masters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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