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SNUG (snugged, snugger, snuggest, snugging)
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, snugger , snuggest , snugging Dictionary entry overview: What does snug mean?
• SNUG (noun)
The noun SNUG has 1 sense:
1. a small secluded room
Familiarity information: SNUG used as a noun is very rare.
• SNUG (adjective)
The adjective SNUG has 4 senses:
1. offering safety; well protected or concealed
2. fitting closely but comfortably
3. well and tightly constructed
4. enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space
Familiarity information: SNUG used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small secluded room
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
cubby; cubbyhole; snug; snuggery
Hypernyms ("snug" is a kind of...):
room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)
Derivation:
snug (well and tightly constructed)
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: snuggest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Offering safety; well protected or concealed
Context example:
a snug hideout
Similar:
protected (kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss)
Derivation:
snugness (a state of warm snug comfort)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Fitting closely but comfortably
Synonyms:
close; close-fitting; snug
Context example:
a close fit
Similar:
tight (closely constrained or constricted or constricting)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Well and tightly constructed
Context example:
a snug little sailboat
Similar:
tight (of such close construction as to be impermeable)
Derivation:
snug (a small secluded room)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space
Synonyms:
Context example:
a snug little apartment
Similar:
comfortable; comfy (providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief ('comfy' is informal))
Derivation:
snugness (a state of warm snug comfort)
Context examples
I should like you to see it when it's snug, it's such a curious place.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Well, now let us be quite comfortable and snug, and talk and laugh all the way home.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Yet there is not one of them but hath an old stocking full of gold pieces hid away in a snug corner.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These kept her very snug and warm, and she slept soundly until morning.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Let go that foreboom tackle and pass it across, and when she’s willing let go the sheet and come in snug with the tackle.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A whiff of warm air ascended to his nostrils, and there, curled up under the snow in a snug ball, lay Billee.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house than a watch-tower—and a troop of tidy, happy villages please me better than the finest banditti in the world.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Then came the smash, and she stayed on to nurse her lover, while brother Joseph, finding himself pretty snug, stayed on too.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And here you are, Mary, and you also, Roddy, and good luck to the carronade which has sent me into so snug a harbour without fear of sailing orders.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Arrived in Oakland, with his snug pay-day in his pocket, he took up his old room at Bernard Higginbotham's and set to work.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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