cosier

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

cosier

1. comparative form of cosy: more cosy

Etymology 2

Compare Old French coussier (“maker of mattresses”), or couseor (“tailor”).

Noun

cosier (plural cosiers)

1. (obsolete) An incompetent tailor.
   • Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

     Do you make an alehouse of my lady’s house, that you squeak out your coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cosier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Croesi, Crœsi, Recios, cories, croise, croisé, scorie