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muzzy
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See also: Muzzy
English
Pronunciation
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Etymology 1
Adjective
muzzy (comparative muzzier, superlative muzziest)
- (dialect, Northern England) Blurred, hazy, indistinct, unfocussed.
- 1979, Journal - Association for Recorded Sound Collections:
- The Handel excerpts are afflicted with a combination of high surface noise from the source material as well as variably muzzy sound.
- Bewildered; dazed.
- Tipsy; drunk; involving drunkenness.
- 1770, Samuel Foote, The Lame Lover, a Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: […] Paul Vaillant; and sold by P[eter] Elmsly […]; and Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 12:
- Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 112:
- To the muzzy drumming of beer in his veins he gazed long and owlishly at the sombre cottage[.]
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 159:
- The front bar was plying trade too, by customers that kept oozing in through the back door. The fat publican served whoever came, muzzy with the succession of pots that stodged away his day.
Synonyms
- (hazy): See Thesaurus:indistinct or Thesaurus:nebulous
- (bewildered): confused, puzzled, perplexed; see also Thesaurus:confused
- (tipsy): buzzed, merry; see also Thesaurus:drunk
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Noun
muzzy (plural muzzies)
Etymology 3
Clipping of moustache + -y (diminutive suffix).
Noun
muzzy (plural muzzies)
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