1Giving a feeling of comfort, warmth, and relaxation.

1. 1.1 (of a relationship or conversation) intimate and relaxed.
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   • ‘I saw that you and he got a little cozy in the lobby,’ Chris teased as he sat on her bed.
   • What do you make of the state of the cozy relationship?
   • During their 45 minutes on stage together, the frequent physical contact and chatter between the two signified a cozy relationship.
   • It's a cosy relationship of mutual dependence that is replicated throughout the whole of the human services.
   • Not surprisingly, it has become a popular eat-out for the corporates, families and for the cosy twosomes.
   • However, this cosy relationship ended when Wilkinson's younger brother, William, returned from Europe in the late 1780s.
   • Policy communities are cosy relationships between organized interests and officials.
   • Then in steps the villain, with an almost Machiavellian intent to wreck the perfectly cosy relationship that the two lovers have built up.
   • The colonialists and the communalists had a cozy relationship at a deeper level.
   • It was a lovely family moment, full of cuddling and hugging and cozy fun.

   Synonyms

   intimate, relaxed, informal, friendly
2. 1.2 Avoiding or not offering challenge or difficulty; complacent.
   a rather cozy assumption among automakers that they would never actually go bust

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   • This cosy set-up was unlikely to be challenged as long as the company performed financially.
   • That manifests itself in a cosy collectivism that seeks to minimise the importance of any problem.
   • Marriage followed alongside a comfortable life on the cosy road to middle-class success.
   • But there is a cosy complacency that Scotland doesn't suffer from it, when that is simply not true.
   • To start with this is an unproven assertion based all too obviously on a cosy view of a mythical working class family from the Fifties.
   • For make no mistake, they are challenging not just our cosy ideas of what it means to be Scottish and support football, they are threatening the very world order of soccer itself.
   • But like many others, I have always been uneasy with that cosy assumption: it lets everyone off their own personal hook.
   • Blogging is said to have changed modern journalism by challenging the cosy media monopoly with its grass-roots approach to issues.
   • I want my world rocked and my cosy assumptions blown out of the water.
3. 1.3derogatory, informal (of a transaction or arrangement) working to the mutual advantage of those involved (used to convey a suspicion of corruption)
   a cozy deal

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   • It is a cosy little arrangement between the clubs.
   • Shareholders considered the arrangement too cosy.
   • Impropriety regarding cozy relationships with local politicians also surfaced.
   • The cozy ties among him, the company, and its board are also coming under scrutiny.
   • Judges hardly interfered with decisions of the executive, and the judiciary and the government had a cozy relationship.
   • But it illustrates yet again the uncomfortably cosy relationship between those in power and those charged with policing them in the nicest possible way.
   • There will be no more cosy deals or discussions that exclude the public.
   • If not, how does one explain the cozy relationship between a major news organization and the campaign team?
   • The cosy relationship between old political strongmen and big business is dead.
   • This cosy arrangement has been abruptly terminated, however, by new government regulations limiting the sort of work that amateurs can carry out.
   • If so - and it's hard to think of any other reason - the relationship between the Court of Appeals and the company seems just a little too cosy for comfort.
   • This isn't good enough, and a current court case may end this cosy little arrangement.
   • The participants also felt that where the press had a cosy relationship with politicians, it was bound to have negative consequences.
   • This was a cosy arrangement, but it is no longer viable.
   • And as it all unravelled, cosy deals, lax auditing, wheels within wheels, and slippery accounting was exposed.
   • What we do not want is more delaying tactics, promises of announcements further down the track, cosy meetings and backroom deals.
   • After all, that might endanger the prosperity of the railways, and their cozy relationship with the grain companies.
   • If this sounds like a pretty cozy arrangement, it is.
   • Buying off tyrants with cosy deals and soothing them with weasel words is yesterday's strategy.
   • He was cozy enough with management that he was allowed to attend board meetings.

1A soft covering to keep a teapot, boiled egg, etc., hot.

1. 1.1 A soft decorative cover for an object.
   a handmade phone cozy

   crocheted tissue box cozies

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   • Who even knew tissue box cozies were a thing?
   • They're fashionable toilet paper cozies.
   • This lovely, quirky toilet roll cosy has been hand crocheted using high quality pure wools.
   • Whether she's in the office, at home or out to lunch, these chic cozies will keep her phone off the floor and out of danger from being stepped on.
   • Chan has got her own store where you can purchase crocheted corn-dog pen cozies and even crocheted bread-and-butter scarves!
   • Often dozens of balls of wool are used to make sleeves or cosies for everyday objects including cars and trees.
   • The latest global rage is yarn-bombing, a wool-based graffiti in which knitting fanatics drape potholes, cars and statues in crazy cosies.
   • She knows this problem well and has even created lighter cozies to prevent her lighters from vanishing.
   • Use denim or any scraps of fabric you have to create a lovely upcycled phone cosy.
   • They take their art to the streets, stitching cosies from everything to bike racks to entire buses.
2. 1.2North American An insulating sleeve used to keep a canned or bottled drink cold.
   guests received beer cozies

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   • You open bottles, clink them against your friends' bottles, and dress them up in little cozies to keep them cold.
   • All you need is a foam can cozy and a 3D rapid prototyping printer.
   • Does extra insulation (like a beer cozy) improve the plain metal bottle, or the insulated cup?
   • This neoprene insulated sleeve slides over the bottle just like a regular beer can cozy, but it also features a built-in handle and comes in two fly patterns.
   • Get the kind of drink cozies that you put in the freezer.
   • The studios have designed these humorous and manly cozies that give your can of beer a beard.
   • Centerpieces at each table included orchids, and peonies, and guests were later gifted beer cozies at the end of the night.
   • Did you know that a beer cozy can be repurposed as a cheap lens protector?

1Give (someone) a feeling of comfort or complacency.

1. 1.1cozy upno object Snuggle up to.
   almost everyone loves to cozy up to a roaring fire

   I shall have a certain lovely lady to cozy up with

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   • Even if you're single, you'll want to cozy up to something cute.
   • With the moon cozying up to Venus in a special way this week, you could be thinking about making a big move too.
   • There's a pasta bar in the centre of it all, which you can cozy up to if you're by yourself.
   • With his inimitable style of cosying up to most of the families for whom he irons clothes, he has made himself indispensable to many households.
   • But, be very careful who you cozy up to in the process.
   • I cozy up to the new Miss Canada International and ask her what incredible prizes she has won.
   • Clearly, she gets a lot of love, and she cozies up to you on impact.
   • It is the temptation of the public intellectual to cozy up to that which he or she should be evaluating critically.
   • One blond girl is cozying up to her, and the other identical-looking one is trying to, but Reba is holding her away, squishing her face.
   • Conservative nutritionists caution that more long-term research is needed before they'll cozy up to all these claims.
2. 1.2cozy up tono object Ingratiate oneself with.
   he decided to resign rather than cozy up to hard-liners in the party

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   • Is there something to the charge that he cozies up to people in power?
   • Is this an act of atonement or a cozying up to future journalists?
   • Yet network managers don't seem to mind, and many politicians across the narrow liberal-to-conservative spectrum never seem to tire of cozying up to him on the air.
   • ‘It is a world in which refuse collectors cosy up to barristers, split along moral lines rather than social ones’.
   • Meanwhile, he says anyone who surfs the Web should be worried about how Internet service providers are cozying up to law-enforcement authorities on this case.
   • What we've seen here plays right into public concerns about whether or not reporters are mostly focused on serving the public's need to know, or cozying up with sources.
   • In fact, the more a politician cozies up to the United Nations, the less I like him.
   • He and his father have always shown a preference to cozying up to the establishment rather than actually helping people.
   • it has been on the air for nearly two years, but only recently have people not directly involved in the program become aware of the extent to which technology is allowing him to cozy up to local listeners.
   • Ironically, a cozying up to the current government may have led to the perceived malaise.