"snuggery" meaning in All languages combined

See snuggery on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: snuggeries [plural]
Etymology: From snug + -ery. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|snug|ery}} snug + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun}} snuggery (plural snuggeries)
  1. (now uncommon) A comfortable room or dwelling. Tags: uncommon
    Sense id: en-snuggery-en-noun-7s-LzG6s Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1880, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Roughing It:",
          "text": "The accustomed coach life began again, now, and by midnight it almost seemed as if we never had been out of our snuggery among the mail sacks at all.",
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        {
          "ref": "1883, Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin, Miss Prudence:",
          "text": "She would go home to her own snuggery, with Linnet to share it, with a relieved mind if John Holmes might be taken into a family.",
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          "ref": "1895, Richard Le Gallienne, The Book-Bills of Narcissus:",
          "text": "A purchaser for one of those aforesaid treatises on farriery just then coming in, dislodged us; so, bidding Samuel good-bye--he and Narcissus already arranging for 'a night'--we obeyed a mutual instinct, and presently found ourselves in the snuggery of a quaint tavern, which was often to figure hereafter in our sentimental history, though probably little in these particular chapters of it.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Padraic Colum, Three Plays:",
          "text": "He moves across ward, and goes out on door of corridor) TOURNOUR Well, you're not getting back to your snuggery, my oul' cod.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Joseph Smith Fletcher, The Borough Treasurer:",
          "text": "Bent was with Lettie when Cotherstone got home, and Cotherstone presently got the two of them into a little snuggery which he kept sacred to himself as a rule.",
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          "ref": "2009 September 27, Liesl Schillinger, “Probing the Charred Ruins of Romance”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "As so often happens in the retelling of grand and not-so-grand amours alike, her re-creation of the affair is trite and teeny-boppery, an effect magnified by her inclusion of scrapbook snapshots — her puffy first boyfriend (“giving up my virginity was special”); a 1972 wedding snap of “Sheryl and Ronnie” (they are still married); a shot of the Upper East Side snuggery where she and Bernie hooked up; and a collage of the “iconic” lipstick building where she and Bernie first met.",
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        "(now uncommon) A comfortable room or dwelling."
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        },
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          "ref": "1895, Richard Le Gallienne, The Book-Bills of Narcissus:",
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        },
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          "type": "quote"
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