adv. [f. SNUG a.1] In a snug or comfortable manner; cosily, comfortably.
1611. Tarlton’s Jests (1844), p. xl. Being thus under saile, going so snugly downe, it made us all so merry.
1732. J. Whaley, Poems, 180. You,… the reigning Toast, may snuggly err, secure from Harm.
1799. Campbell, The Harper, 15. How snugly we slept in my old coat of gray.
1815. Scott, Guy M., liii. Even in winter it was a sheltered and snugly sequestered spot.
1852. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., I. xiii. 202. She found herself snugly tucked up on the bed, with a blanket over her.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 220. Mr. Banks … professed himself to be snugly lodged.
b. Neatly, trimly; closely, securely.
1800. Naval Chron., IV. 134. These balls … might be stopped up snugly to the beams.
1901. J. Black’s Carp. & Build., 68. A … piece of heavy galvanized sheet iron is fitted into the groove with white lead, and then the parts are brought snugly together.
