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▪ I. dozy, a.1|ˈdəʊzɪ|
Also dosey, dozey.
[f. doze v. + -y1.]
1. a. Drowsy, sleepy. Also (colloq.), (mentally) sluggish; stupid; lazy.
1693Dryden Persius iii. (R.), His lazy limbs and dozy head. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 429 The dozy fume. 1836in R. McNab Old Whaling Days (1913) 451 The 4th mate..has been Sick and dozey ½ the time. 1883A. S. Hardy But yet a Woman 167 A fire always makes one dozy. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey i. vii. 50 Soames directed his gaze at the pink face of dosey old Mothergill. 1959J. Braine Vodi iii. 51 ‘The swine,’ Dick said. ‘You're dozy,’ Liphook said. ‘They were damned decent, really.’ 1961J. Maclaren-Ross Doomsday Bk. vii. 75 What's funny, you dozey berk?
b. as n.
1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Africa II. 241 That old dozy there and myself got a fortnight's leave.
2. Of timber or fruit: In a state of incipient decay; ‘sleepy’. Cf. dozed, doted 2, doty.
1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 464 Dozy and dozed are said in Pennsylvania of timber beginning to decay and unfit for use, while the decay is yet hardly perceptible, but the timber already brittle. (S. S. Haldeman.) 1882Boston Jrnl. Chem. 1 Feb. 19/2 The water runs in around the wood and makes it dozy, wet, and heavy. 1923D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo viii. 166 Fatuous letters from friends in England..as dozy as ripe pears in their laisser aller heaviness.
▪ II. † dozy, a.2 Obs.
Also dosye, dosey, dusey.
An obs. by-form of dizzy a.
1530Palsgr. 310/2 Dosye in the heed, betourne. 1551–68[see dizzy a. 2].
▪ III. † ˈdozy, v. Obs. rare.
[f. prec. adj.]
trans. To make giddy or dizzy; to dizzy.
1568Turner Herbal iii. 51 Not to suffer them to lyve after they be dosyed or made dronken. |