[syn: cozy, intimate, informal]
3. suggesting connivance;
- Example: "a cozy arrangement with the police"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cozy \Co"zy\ (k?"z?), a. [Compar. Cozier (-z?-?r); superl.
Coziest.] [Cf. Scot. cosie, cozie, prob. from Gael. cosach
abounding in hollows, or cosagach full of holes or crevices,
snug, sheltered, from cos a hollow, a crevice.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Snug; comfortable; easy; contented. [Written also cosey
and cosy.]
[1913 Webster]
2. [Cf. F. causer to chat, talk.] Chatty; talkative;
sociable; familiar. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cozy \Co"zy\, n. [See Cozy,a.]
A wadded covering, often decorative, for a teakettle or other
vessel to keep the contents hot. Also called tea cozy
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cozy
adj 1: enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter
especially in a small space; "a cozy nook near the fire";
"snug in bed"; "a snug little apartment" [syn: cozy,
cosy, snug]
2: having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal
atmosphere; "had a cozy chat"; "a relaxed informal manner";
"an intimate cocktail lounge"; "the small room was cozy and
intimate" [syn: cozy, intimate, informal]
3: suggesting connivance; "a cozy arrangement with the police"
n 1: a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm [syn: cosy,
tea cosy, cozy, tea cozy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "cozy":
airworthy, buddy-buddy, charmed, chatty, cheerful, chitchatty,
chummy, colloquial, comfortable, comfy, commodious, communicative,
confabulatory, content, contented, convenient, conversational,
cushioned, cushiony, cushy, delighted, easeful, easy, eupeptic,
euphoric, exhilarated, familiar, favorably impressed with,
friendly, glad, gladsome, gratified, homelike, homely, homey,
homish, in clover, interlocutory, intimate, intrigued, lived-in,
luxurious, pally, palsy-walsy, peaceful, plain, pleased,
pleased as Punch, pleased with, relaxing, reposeful, restful,
roomy, safe, satisfied, sea-kindly, seaworthy, secure, simple,
snug, soft, sold on, taken with, tete-a-tete, thrilled, tickled,
tickled pink, tickled to death, unpretending, warm