[f. SNUG a.1]
1. The snug, that which is comfortable, quiet or private. Upon the snug, privately. rare.
1768. Woman of Honor, I. 187. I escaped from those scenes of tasteless enjoyment … into the snug of life.
1861. [Mrs. M. A. Paul], Two Cosmos, I. iv. A bye thing [sc. a prize-fight] got up upon the snug at Kilburn Wells.
2. dial. or slang. The bar-parlour of an inn or public-house; = SNUGGERY 1 b.
1864. Brierley, Layrock, xiii. Who would have followed him into the snug.
1890. Hull News, 19 April, 6/5. Lavinia Gray … was charged with doing wilful damage … to a window in the snug of the Shepherdess Inn.
1894–. in dial. glossaries and texts (Northumbld., Cumbld., Lanc., Warw.).
b. Sc. One of the compartments in the tap-room of an old-fashioned inn.
1891. Scottish Leader, 18 Sept., 5. He came out of one of the ‘snugs’ or boxes.
