snug
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1. snug - Noun
2. snug - Adjective
3. snug - Verb
5. snug - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.
Same as Lug, n., 3.
To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.
To place snugly.
To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.
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Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little, snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.