Cozy
/ˈkoʊ.zi/noun
Comfortably warm, snug, and pleasant; also used informally for a small or intimate place.
Did you know?The word entered English through Scots, and its earlier history is tangled with ideas of snugness and comfort rather than any mystical origin, but it later became a powerful emotional word for safety and refuge.
Etymological Timeline
18th Century
Scots
cozie
“comfortable, snug, warm”
18th Century
English
cozy
“comfortable, snug, pleasant”
Earlier Germanic
Scots/English
cose
“comfort, snugness”
Uncertain origin
Middle English
coze
“to make comfortable or snug”