snug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: snŭg
ipa: /snʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: snugger
form: snuggest
Etymology: From dialectal English snug (“tight, handsome”), perhaps from Old Norse snøggr, from Proto-Germanic *snawwuz (“short, quick, fast”). Compare Icelandic snöggur (“smooth”), Danish snög (“neat”), Swedish snygg (“handsome, nice-looking”).
Senses: examples: text: I felt snug tucked up in my snug bed.
text: Now, if in a stage coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re-arrange their "comforters," feel indignantly a sensible loss of caloric—the intruder has at least made a sensation.
ref: 1848 April – 1849 October, E[dward] Bulwer-Lytton, chapter I, in The Caxtons: A Family Picture, volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1849, →OCLC, part IX, page 88:
text: 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.
ref: 1853, Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, page 2
text: That night Tarzan built a snug little bower high among the swaying branches of a giant tree, and there the tired girl slept, while in a crotch beneath her the ape-man curled, ready, even in sleep, to protect her.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 214:
synonyms: comfy
cosy
cushy
gemütlich
glosses: Warm and comfortable; cosy.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1853, Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, page 2
synonyms: word: acceptable
word: good enough
word: acceptable
word: adequate
word: all right
word: average
word: close enough
word: close enough for government work
word: close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades
word: decent
word: favoursome
word: fair
word: fine
word: jake
word: good enough
word: good enough for government work
word: hunky dory
word: kosher
word: mustn't grumble
word: nonbad
word: not bad
word: not half bad
word: OK
word: okay
word: okayish
word: passable
word: pretty good
word: tolerable
word: up to par
word: up to scratch
word: up to snuff
word: reasonable
word: respectable
word: satisfactory
word: snug
word: sufficient
word: suitable
word: tickety-boo
glosses: Satisfactory.
examples: text: [I]t does make it clear that adding the keyboard case to the PinePhone will more than double the thickness. You may still be able to slide the whole thing into your pocket, but it’s likely to be more of a snug fit than when using the phone on its own.
ref: 2021 April 23, Brad Linder, “PinePhone keyboard prototype transforms the Linux phone into a tiny Linux laptop”, in Linux Smartphones:
synonyms: word: clingy
word: figure-hugging
word: form-fitting
word: as tight as Dick's hatband
word: body-hugging
word: bodycon
word: clingsome
word: clingy
word: close-fitting
word: figure-hugging
word: form-fitting
word: skinny
word: skintight
word: slim-fit
word: slinky
word: snug
word: tight
word: tight-fitting
glosses: Close-fitting.
examples: text: Be ſure at Will’s the following Day, / Lie ſnug, and hear what Criticks ſay.
ref: 1733, [Jonathan Swift], On Poetry: A Rapsody, Dublin; London: […] [R. Fleming] [a]nd sold by J. Huggonson, […], →OCLC, page 9, lines 116–117:
synonyms: word: concealed
word: covered
word: tect
word: covered
word: concealed
word: dark
word: dern
word: hidden
word: invisible
word: latent
word: private
word: obfuscated
word: obfuscatory
word: obscure
word: obscured
word: occluded
word: occulted
word: recondite
word: unapparent
word: secluded
word: secret
word: secreted
word: silent
word: snug
word: tect
word: underground
word: undisclosed
word: veiled
glosses: Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
Derived terms: snug as a bug
snug as a bug in a rug
snuggish
snugly
Related terms: snuggle
snuggly