coze

American  

[kohz] / koʊz /

Or cose

verb (used without object)

cozed, cozing

1. to converse in a friendly way; chat.

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noun

1. a friendly talk; a chat.

Etymology

Origin of coze

First recorded in 1815–25; from French causer “to chat,” from Old French “to reason, expound,” from Latin causārī “to plead a cause, plead as an excuse,” derivative of causa cause

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

coze cozing

Cantor: O Lotus, lifting out of the noisome coze!

From Time Magazine Archive

"Of coze," murmured Aurora, who had lost her bearings almost at the first word.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington

"Of coze," said Aurora, with a pensive respiration, "I thing id is doze climade," and the apothecary stopped, as a man should who finds himself unloading large philosophy in a little parlor.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington

Nod to sood me, of coze, mais, çà fait rien--daz nott'n; me, I am now a h'ole woman, you know, eh?

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington

We are now all four of us young ladies sitting round the circular table in the inner room writing our letters, while the two brothers are having a comfortable coze in the room adjoining.

From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by Austen-Leigh, William

We used to sit together hour after hour, cozing: I believe I must thus spell the word we have derived from the French causer; no other word has the same meaning.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby