snuggery

or snug·ger·ie

[ snuhg-uh-ree ]

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noun,plural snug·ger·ies.British.

a snug place or position.
a comfortable or cozy room.

Origin of snuggery

First recorded in 1805–15; snug + -ery

Words Nearby snuggery

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How to use snuggery in a sentence

I will line it with green baize, and make it quite a snuggery.
Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
Yeovil wandered down to his snuggery, a mood of listless dejection possessing him.
When William Came | Saki
Directly I knew she was gone, I jumped out of my snuggery, and looked for the change of rigging she had mentioned.
Lady Eureka, v. 1 (of 3) | Robert Folkestone Williams
The rooms are of comfortable size, and compose just what an Empress would consider to be a snuggery.
Wintering in the Riviera | William Miller
They left the snuggery, and, blissfully conscious of her honors, Toinette presented her father to the girls.
Caps and Capers | Gabrielle E. Jackson

British Dictionary definitions for snuggery

snuggery

/ (ˈsnʌɡərɪ) /

nounplural -geries

a cosy and comfortable place or room
another name for snug (def. 7)

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