snug

English

From dialectal English snug (“tight, handsome”), maybe from Proto-Norse *snaggwuz. Compare Icelandic snöggur (“smooth”), Danish snög (“neat”), Swedish snygg.

snug (comparative snugger, superlative snuggest)

Warm and comfortable; cosy.
I felt snug tucked up in my snug bed.
- 1853, Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 2:
  I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but, in the cool tranquillity of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men's bonds, and mortgages, and title-deeds.
Satisfactory.
- 1853, Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 2:
  I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but, in the cool tranquillity of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men's bonds, and mortgages, and title-deeds.
Close-fitting.
Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
- Jonathan Swift:
  Lie snug, and hear what critics say.

comfortable; cosy, cozy

close fitting

snug (plural snugs)

room in a pub

German: Hinterraum m; gemütlicher Hinterraum m; gemütliche Ecke f; Separee (de) n
Irish: clúid f, cúláisean m

snug (third-person singular simple present snugs, present participle snugging, simple past and past participle snugged)

(transitive) To make secure or snug.
- 1967, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, May 1976 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 15:
  He snugged his Gun into its tunic holster, checked the scope on his Follower and left the room.
To snuggle or nestle.
(transitive) To make smooth.

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