cose

See also: Cose and cosé

English

Verb

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.

References

• 1908, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary.

Anagrams

• CEOs, COEs, ECOs, EOCs, ESOC, Esco, OSCE, SECO, SOCE, ceos, ecos

Galician

Verb

cose

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• (Central and Southern Italy) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ze/, (traditional) /ˈkɔ.se/
  • Rhymes: -ɔze, (traditional) -ɔse
  • Syllabification: cò‧se
• (Northern Italy) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ze/
• (Northern Italy, dialects) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.se/

Noun

cose f

1. plural of cosa

Anagrams

• -esco, OCSE, esco, seco, secò

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.zə/

Noun

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

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

Picard

Etymology

From Latin causa.

Noun

cose f (plural coses)

1. thing

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ze/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.z(ɨ)/

• Rhymes: -ɔzi, -ɔzɨ

Verb

cose

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

cose

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