different between snug vs warm

English

Etymology

From dialectal English snug (“tight, handsome”), maybe from Proto-Norse *snaggwuz. Compare Icelandic snöggur (“smooth”), Danish snög (“neat”), Swedish snygg.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sn?g, IPA^(key): /sn??/
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

snug (comparative snugger, superlative snuggest)

1. Warm and comfortable; cosy.

   I felt snug tucked up in my snug bed.

   • 1853, Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ?ISBN, page 2:

     I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but, in the cool tranquillity of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men's bonds, and mortgages, and title-deeds.

2. Satisfactory.
   • 1853, Melville, Herman, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ?ISBN, page 2:

     I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but, in the cool tranquillity of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men's bonds, and mortgages, and title-deeds.

3. Close-fitting.
4. Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
   • 1733, Jonathan Swift, On Poetry, a Rhapsody

     Lie snug, and hear what criticks say.

Synonyms

• (warm and comfortable): comfy, cosy/cozy, cushy, gemütlich
• (satisfactory): acceptable, good enough; see also Thesaurus:satisfactory
• (close-fitting): clingy, figure-hugging, form-fitting; see also Thesaurus:close-fitting
• (concealed): covered, tect; see also Thesaurus:hidden

Derived terms

• snuggish
• snugly
• snug as a bug in a rug

Related terms

• snuggle
• snuggly

Translations

Noun

snug (plural snugs)

1. (Britain) A small, comfortable back room in a pub.
2. (engineering) A lug.

Translations

See also

• lounge bar
• public bar
• saloon bar
• vault

Verb

snug (third-person singular simple present snugs, present participle snugging, simple past and past participle snugged)

1. (transitive) To make secure or snug.
   • 1967, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, May 1976 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 15:

     He snugged his Gun into its tunic holster, checked the scope on his Follower and left the room.

2. To snuggle or nestle.
3. (transitive) To make smooth.

Anagrams

• Ngus, Sung, Ungs, gnus, guns, nugs, sung

English

Alternative forms

• warme (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /w??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Etymology 1

From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, with different proposed origins:

1. Proto-Indo-European *g??er- (“warm, hot”), related to Ancient Greek ?????? (thermós), Latin formus, Sanskrit ???? (gharma).
2. Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), related to Hittite [script needed] (warnuzi) and to Old Church Slavonic ?????? (variti).

The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *g??- evolved in Germanic: some think that *g?? would have turned to *b, and that the root *g??er- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots.

Adjective

warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmest)

1. Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

   The tea is still warm.

   This is a very warm room.

   • 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Herons of Elmwood

     Warm and still is the summer night.
2. Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.

   We have a warm friendship.

3. Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
4. Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
   • 1876, William Black, Madcap Violet

     Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm", as children say at blindman's buff.

5. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
6. (figuratively) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness

   a warm piano sound

7. (archaic) Ardent, zealous.

   a warm debate, with strong words exchanged

   • I had been none of the warmest of partisans.

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 1

     To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.

8. (archaic, colloquial) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.

   • I know the Stuyvesant family —puff— every one of them —puff— not a more respectable family in the province —puff— old standards —puff— warm householders —puff— none of your upstarts

   • You shall have a draught upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he is as warm a man as any within five miles round him.

9. (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
   • 1929, The Listener (issues 41-50, page 552)

     The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:warm
• See also Thesaurus:affectionate
• See also Thesaurus:difficult

Antonyms

• (mild temperature): Arctic, cold, cool, frozen
• (caring): Arctic, cold, cool, frozen

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• heated
• hot
• steamy
• temperature
• tepid

Etymology 2

From Old English werman.

Verb

warm (third-person singular simple present warms, present participle warming, simple past and past participle warmed)

1. (transitive) To make or keep warm.

   • Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.

   • 1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus

     enough to warm, but not enough to burn

2. (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.

   The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.

3. (intransitive) To favour increasingly.

4. (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.

   The speaker warms as he proceeds.

5. (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
   • November 20, 1717, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester

     there was a collection of all that had been written{{..}}: I warmed my head with them.

   • Bright hopes, that erst the bosom warmed.

6. (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
   • 1945, The Atlantic (volume 176, page 94)

     Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of "I'll warm your bottom"; "I'll turn you over to your dad"; "I'll lock you in the truck"; "I'll send for the bogey man" — all of which Darleen ignored […]

Derived terms

• like death warmed over

Translations

Noun

warm (plural warms)

1. (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch warm, from Middle Dutch warm, from Old Dutch warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz.

Adjective

warm (attributive warmer, comparative warmste, superlative warmste)

1. warm

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• woare, woarm, wore, wérme

Etymology

From Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm. Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.

Adjective

warm

1. (Formazza) warm

References

• “warm” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch warm, from Old Dutch warm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, of uncertain origin; derivations from either Proto-Indo-European *g??er- (“warm, hot”) or *wer- (“to burn”) have been proposed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r(?)m/
• Hyphenation: warm
• Rhymes: -?rm

Adjective

warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmst)

1. warm, hot

   Antonym: koud

2. (meteorology, officially) 20 °C or more

Inflection

Derived terms

• warmte
• warmwater

Descendants

• Afrikaans: warm

See also

• tropisch
• zomers

German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German warm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /varm/, [va?m], [va??m], [va?m], [?-]

Adjective

warm (comparative wärmer, superlative am wärmsten)

1. warm; mildly hot

   Antonyms: kalt, kühl

2. (of clothes) warm; keeping the wearer warm
3. (dated, except in warmer Bruder) homosexual, gay

   Synonym: schwul

Usage notes

• German warm means “warm”, but not “feeling warm”; therefore the phrase ich bin warm (literally “I am warm”) would mean that one’s body has a high temperature, particularly that one’s skin is warm on the outside. The English “I am warm” (that is: I feel warm) is equivalent to German mir ist warm (literally “to me it's warm”).
• Although warm (“gay”) is not in general use, this sense is current enough to make it advisable not to describe the relation between two men as warm (unless the implication is intended).

Declension

Derived terms

Adverb

warm

1. (of rent-paying) including utilities

   Antonym: kalt

Derived terms

• Warmmiete

Further reading

• “warm” in Duden online

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch warm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm

Adjective

warm

1. warm, hot
2. warm, keeping the wearer warm (of clothes)
3. warm (of emotions)

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• w?erm
• werm

Descendants

• Dutch: warm
  • Afrikaans: warm
• Limburgish: werm
• West Flemish: werm

Further reading

• “warm”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “warm”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle English

Alternative forms

• warme, werm, wearm

Etymology

From Old English wearm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /warm/, /w?rm/

Adjective

warm (plural and weak singular warme, comparative warmer, superlative warmest)

1. (temperature) warm, mildly hot
2. (weather) warm, pleasant, mild
3. heated, warmed
4. (locations or garments) having a tendency to be warm; designed to stay warm
5. Being at a healthy temperature
6. enthusiastic, vigourous

Descendants

• Scots: wairm
• English: warm

References

• “warm, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.

Noun

warm

1. warmness, heat

References

• “warm, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *warm

Adjective

warm

1. warm

Derived terms

• warm?

Descendants

• Middle High German: warm
  • Alemannic German: warm
    • Italian Walser: warm, woare, woarm, wore, wérme
  • Bavarian: borm
    • Cimbrian: barm
    • Mòcheno: bòrm
    • Udinese: borm, borbm, boarm
  • Central Franconian: wärm, warm
    • Hunsrik: waarem
  • German: warm
  • Luxembourgish: waarm
  • Yiddish: ???????? (varem)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *warm (“warm”)

Adjective

warm (comparative warmoro, superlative warmost)

1. warm

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: warm