snug

(Inglese)

Frequenza

C2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/snʌɡ/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

From dialectal English snug (“tight, handsome”), perhaps from Old Norse snøggr, from Proto-Germanic *snawwuz (“short, quick, fast”). Compare Icelandic snöggur (“smooth”), Danish snög (“neat”), Swedish snygg (“handsome, nice-looking”).

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