cosy
IPA: kˈoʊzi
noun
- A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.
- A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).
- A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.
verb
- To become snug and comfortable.
- To become friendly with.
adjective
- Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social.
- Warm and comfortable.
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Examples of "cosy" in Sentences
- And so, the tea cosy came about.
- There is a cosy fire in the study.
- Not much cosy Celtic bonding there.
- The style became less cosy and less reverent.
- A new husband would've changed that cosy situation.
- Even if it doesnt have all the cosy pencil shadows.
- A cosy restaurant above the music venue Musikloppen.
- A teapot under a cosy is stewing, not brewing, the tea.
- There is a basic guesthouse and small but cosy restaurant.
- He concluded by describing the film as mighty, mighty cosy.
- The kombi now had 4 Adults and 2 dogs ... the word cosy comes to mind!
- Sat in cosy 9.00 till 3.30 (i worked through lunch) bean counting jobs.
- The ones who don’t seem to be are those off the frontline, in cosy offices with comfy seats and time to spare.
- Based on the books by Jennifer Worth, Call The Midwife has been called "cosy and predictable" by certain critics.
- Yet racism remained an undercurrent within Australian Rules before two incidents blew the idea of cosy brotherhood apart.
- Both leadership candidates are making great play of the fact that their party needs to offer a very distinct alternative to what they have dubbed the cosy consensus of the two main parties.
- Why should the law abiding working person pay for these scum to be locked up in cosy cells with all the amenities that they can’t afford for themselves, if you are sending people to prison it should be hell on earth for them.
- And in any case he hadn't the chance; an elderly uncle Beatrice hadn't seen in years appeared at her elbow and marched her off to have what he called a cosy little chat, and which lasted until it was time to toast the bridal pair.
- Re: 'cosy' - I know what you mean: the Leith Festival is still very much the younger sibling to the Edinburgh Book Festival, and not that many people really know about it yet, but hopefully it'll build its reputation over the next couple of years and an audience commensurate with that.