Meanings
verbcose (third-person singular simple present coses, present participle cosing, simple past and past participle cosed)
present singular third person coses · participle present cosing · participle past cosed · past cosed · alternative coze
- intransitiveTo make oneself cosy; to be snug.
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.
a 1821, Anne Lister, quoted in 1992, Helena Whitbread, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840 (page 171)
Origin
Back-formation from cosy.
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