comfy

English

Etymology

Clipping of comfortable with suffix -y.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkʌm.fi/, [ˈkʰʌɱ.fi], [kʰʌmpfi]
Hyphenation: com‧fy
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Adjective

comfy (comparative comfier, superlative comfiest)

(informal) Comfortable.
The robe and slippers were so warm and comfy she just fell asleep in her chair.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  "We're all gettin' a deal too soft and dull and comfy. Give me the great waste lands and the wide spaces, with a gun in my fist and somethin' to look for that's worth findin'."

Derived terms

Translations

comfortable

Finnish: mukava (fi), lokoisa
French: confortable (fr)
German: bequem (de)
Italian: comodo (it)
Maori: āhuru
Romanian: confortabil (ro) m, comod (ro) m

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