cosey

See also: Cosey

English

Adjective

cosey (comparative more cosey, superlative most cosey)

  1. Archaic spelling of cosy.
    • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “How the Pickwickians Made and Cultivated the Acquaintance of a Couple of Nice Young Men Belonging to One of the Liberal Professions; […]”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 315:
      Mr. Pickwick expressed the pleasure it would afford him to meet the medical fellows; and Mr. Bob Sawyer had informed him that he meant to be very cosey, and that his friend Ben was to be one of the party, they shook hands and separated
    • 1861, Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‎[1]:
      The old ladies had cosey times together.
    • 1905, Jack London, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[2]:
      It was dry and cosey.
    • 1906, Mabel Osgood Wright, The Garden, You, and I‎[3]:
      Preferable is the cosey English walled villa of the middle class, even though it be a bit stuffy and suggestive of earwigs.

Noun

cosey (plural coseys)

  1. Archaic spelling of cosy.

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