comfy, a.
(ˈkʌmfɪ)
Alteration of comfortable a., with the hypocoristic suffix -y6. Hence ˈcomfily adv.
| 1829 Hist. Little Louisa 82, I am saving up my money to buy them two blankets, and then they will be much more comfy. 1887 Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (1888) 230 Put to bed on some rolled-up carpets, all comfy. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 3/2 A ‘comfy’ paletot for a little girl. 1905 E. Glyn Viciss. Evang. 50 We might sit in that comfy window-seat and talk. 1915 H. Rosher In R.N.A.S. (1916) 57, I arrived here safely in excellent time after quite a comfy journey. 1917 M. Sinclair Tree of Heaven xvi, Not insanely happy..but quietly, comfily happy. Ibid. xx, You can't expect us to fight so comfy, and to be killed so comfy, if we know our womenkind are being pounded to bits in the ground we've just cleared. 1928 E. Wallace Again Three Just Men i. 33, I am in London, which is delightfully capitalistic and comfy. 1933 W. de la Mare Lord Fish 182 Let's sit down here comfily on the stones. 1969 Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 26 Crochet-look tights... Comfy, elastic waist. |