Other forms: cozies
Cozy means warm, comfortable and pleasant, like a small room with a fire. A cozy room, cozy up, get cozy.
It suggests small and enclosed as much as warm: a cozy corner is better than a cozy hall. Cozy is the American spelling and cosy the British one, and both are common online. To cozy up to somebody is to get close for advantage, which is faintly disapproving. A tea cozy is the cover that keeps a pot warm. Note that a cozy is also a genre of gentle detective novel.
1adjectivecozyWarm, comfortable and pleasant.
“On winter nights we sit by the fire, wrapped in blankets, feeling cozy.”
2verbcloseTo get close to somebody for advantage.
“Politicians cozy up to wealthy donors before every election.”
cozy is a quality of warm comfort.
Also accepted in games: cosy
Old High German
kōsa
Old Norse
kose
Norwegian
kose
Scots
cosie
English
cosy
English, today
cozy
Built from
cosy comes from Scots cosie, from Old Scots colsie, but ultimate derivation is unknown. Possibly of gmq - origin, such as Norwegian kose seg (“to have a cozy time”), from Old Norse kose sig, from koselig, koslig, perhaps ultimately from Old High German kōsa; see modern German kosen (“to cuddle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA