snug

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
snug/snʌɡ/

▶adjective (snugger, snuggest)

• 1 warm and cosy.

• 2 very tight or close-fitting.

• 3 archaic (of an income or employment) allowing one to live in comfort.

▶noun Brit. a small, cosy public room in a pub or small hotel. ▶verb (snugs, snugging, snugged) chiefly N. Amer. place or settle safely or cosily.

– derivatives
snugly adverb,
snugness noun.

– origin C16 (orig. in naut. use in the sense ‘shipshape, compact, prepared for bad weather’): prob. of Low Ger. or Du. origin.