SNUGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snugly mean? 

• SNUGLY (adverb)
  The adverb SNUGLY has 3 senses:

1. fitting closely

2. safely protected

3. warmly and comfortably sheltered

  Familiarity information: SNUGLY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNUGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fitting closely

Context example:

the vest fit snugly

Pertainym:

snug (fitting closely but comfortably)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Safely protected

Context example:

concealed snugly in his hideout

Pertainym:

snug (offering safety; well protected or concealed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Warmly and comfortably sheltered

Context example:

sitting snugly by the fireside while the storm raged

Pertainym:

snug (enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space)

 Context examples 

The library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl—if Sibyl she were—was seated snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney- corner.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When all was arranged snugly, she said: “Now, sir, to bed. And you shall sleep until luncheon. Till dinner-time,” she corrected, remembering the arrangement on the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Well, we came to the old boat again in good time at night; and there Mr. and Mrs. Barkis bade us good-bye, and drove away snugly to their own home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While they snugly repair to their own end of the house, she is formally conducted by Dorothy, the ancient housekeeper, up a different staircase, and along many gloomy passages, into an apartment never used since some cousin or kin died in it about twenty years before.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

As the Ghost rolled her side out of water, the boat was lifted snugly against her, and before the return roll came, we had heaved it in over the side and turned it bottom up on the deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I glanced about the room, which had had its sanded floor sanded, no doubt, in exactly the same manner when the chief waiter was a boy—if he ever was a boy, which appeared improbable; and at the shining tables, where I saw myself reflected, in unruffled depths of old mahogany; and at the lamps, without a flaw in their trimming or cleaning; and at the comfortable green curtains, with their pure brass rods, snugly enclosing the boxes; and at the two large coal fires, brightly burning; and at the rows of decanters, burly as if with the consciousness of pipes of expensive old port wine below; and both England, and the law, appeared to me to be very difficult indeed to be taken by storm.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Having cast off the lashings, I hoisted first on the forward tackle, then on the aft, till the boat cleared the rail, when I lowered away, one tackle and then the other, for a couple of feet, till it hung snugly, above the water, against the schooner’s side.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)