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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Maya Angelou

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug. Benjamin Franklin

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. Robert Southey

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. Henry Mayhew

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Seamus Heaney

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. Thomas Keneally

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