cose

See also: Cose and cosé

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Back-formation from cosy.[1]

Verb

cose (third-person singular simple present coses, present participle cosing, simple past and past participle cosed)

  1. (intransitive) To make oneself cosy; to be snug.
    • a 1821, Anne Lister, quoted in 1992, Helena Whitbread, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840 (page 171)
      Told her of the bad cooking here; that I could get nothing to eat here or, sometimes, even at Shibden. We agreed we would have things nice sometime, our tastes suit & we are very thoroughly happy together. We cosed very comfortably.

References

  • 1908, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary.
  1. Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cose”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

cose

  1. inflection of coser:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

  • (Central and Southern Italy) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.ze/, (traditional) /ˈkɔ.se/
    • Rhymes: -ɔze, (traditional) -ɔse
    • Hyphenation: cò‧se
  • (Northern Italy) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.ze/
  • (Northern Italy, dialects) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.se/

Noun

cose f

  1. plural of cosa

Anagrams

Old French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.zə/

Noun

cose oblique singular, f (oblique plural coses, nominative singular cose, nominative plural coses)

  1. (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chose

Picard

Etymology

From Latin causa.

Noun

cose f (plural coses)

  1. thing

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.zi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.ze/

  • Rhymes: -ɔzi, -ɔzɨ

Verb

cose

  1. inflection of coser:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkose/ [ˈko.se]
  • Rhymes: -ose
  • Syllabification: co‧se

Verb

cose

  1. inflection of coser:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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