Snugly

Definition: Snugly

Snugly

Adverb

1. Fitting closely; "the vest fit snugly".

2. Safely protected; "concealed snugly in his hideout".

3. Warmly and comfortably sheltered; "sittly snugly by the fireside while the storm raged".

Date "snugly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references)

Crosswords: Snugly

English words defined with "snugly": insert ♦ tight-fitting, tightly fitting, tuck. (references)

Specialty definitions using "snugly": BENCH CARPENTER ♦ MAINSPRING FORMER, ARBOR END ♦ SIEVE MAKER. (references)

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Modern Usage: Snugly

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The condom works by fitting snugly over a woman's wine glass. (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Snugly

Domain	Title
High Tech	Fellowes Custom Mail Order Keyguard Keyboard Seal/Skin Fits Snugly (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Snugly

Author	Quotation
Author Unknown	When love is worn snugly, well wrapped about, the more wear you give it, the less it wears out.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Snugly

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	He picked up his coat roll and tightened it snugly about his shoes and turtle.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Snugly

"Snugly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snugly" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	90	34,744

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snugly

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
snugly	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Snugly

Language		Translations for "snugly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		贴身地. (various references)

French		douillet (snug). (various references)

German		behaglich (agreeable, comfortable, comfortably, comfy, contented, cosily, cosy, cozy, enjoyable, homely, homey, lived-in, lovely, nice, pleasant, snug), gemütlich (approachable, calm, close, comfortable, comfy, cosy, cozy, easy going, friendly, good natured, homelike, homely, homey, homy, informal, intimate, jovial, jovially, leisurely, lived-in, peaceful, pleasant, relaxed, snug, tranquil, unhurried). (various references)

Hungarian		kényelmesen (at an easy pace, cozily, leisurely). (various references)

Italian		accogliente (comfortable, cosy, cozy, hospitable, snug). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		温温 (carefree, comfortably, cosily, easy), 温々 (carefree, comfortably, cosily, easy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぬくぬく (carefree, comfortably, cosily, easy). (various references)

Korean		아늑하게 (Cosily, Cozily, snug). (various references)

Pig Latin		uglysnay

Russian		уютно (cosily, snuggly). (various references)

Spanish		cómodamente (comfortably, Cose, cosily). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Snugly

Misspellings
	"Snugly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anagly, snugle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Snugly"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "snugly" (pronounced snu"glē)
4	-u" g l ē	smugly, ugly.
3	-g l ē	bracingly, scraggly, singly, vaguely.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Snugly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-l-n-s-u-y"
	-1 letter: lungs, slung.
	-2 letters: gnus, guls, guns, guys, lugs, lung, luny, slug, snug, sung, ugly.
	-3 letters: gnu, gul, gun, guy, lug, nus, sly, sun, syn, uns.
	-4 letters: nu, un, us.
	Words containing the letters "g-l-n-s-u-y"
	+1 letter: lungyis.
	+2 letters: gunplays, guylines, musingly, nylghaus, sullying.
	+3 letters: amusingly, gushingly, rousingly, slurrying, songfully, supplying, unsightly.
	+4 letters: accusingly, autolysing, blushingly, bustlingly, crushingly, generously, polygonums, polygynous, sanguinely, singularly, soundingly, stunningly, superlying, trustingly, younglings.
	+5 letters: analogously, confusingly, congruously, dangerously, emulsifying, exogenously, glutinously, ingeniously, ingenuously, insultingly, insurgently, myelogenous, playgrounds, presumingly, resupplying, singularity, squintingly, stultifying, stumblingly, unceasingly, unsparingly.
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