Also cose. [app. ad. F. cause-r: cf. COUSE.] intr. To converse in a friendly and familiar way; to have a long talk or chat.
1826. H. D. Beste, Four Yrs. France, 26–7. We used to sit together hour after hour cozing: I believe I must thus spell the word we have derived from the French causer; no other word has the same meaning…. And so, another hour’s coze.
1828. Sir C. Lyell, in Mrs. Lyell, Life, Lett. & Jrnls. (1881), I. viii. 183. Breakfasted with Murchison, and … cozed till midnight with him.
1847–78. Halliwell, Coze, to converse with earnestly and familiarly. South.
