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cose

See also: Cose and cosé

English

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Etymology

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Back-formation from cosy.[1]

Verb

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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.

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

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Galician

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Verb

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cose

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

Italian

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Noun

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cose f

  1. plural of cosa

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Old French

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

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

Old Irish

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Adverb

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cose

  1. Alternative spelling of cosse (“up to now”)

Picard

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Etymology

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From Latin causa.

Noun

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cose f (plural coses)

  1. thing

Portuguese

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cose

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

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

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cose

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