cosier
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cosier
- comparative form of cosy: more cosy
Etymology 2
[edit]Compare Old French coussier (“maker of mattresses”), or couseor (“tailor”).
Noun
[edit]cosier (plural cosiers)
- (obsolete) A cobbler.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Do you make an alehouse of my lady’s house, that you squeak out your coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice?
References
[edit]- “cosier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.