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wuzzy, a. colloq.|ˈwʌzɪ| Confused, fuddled, vague. Cf. woozy, muzzy, adjs.
1896Dialect Notes I. 427 Wuzzy,..confused. 1921E. A. J. B. Lytton Let. 10 Mar. in Ld. Lytton Antony (1935) iii. 74, I am very nearly mad, I am quite slowly turning wuzzy. 1937J. B. Priestley Two Time Plays 79, I can't remember... I'm—a bit—wuzzy.
Add: Hence ˈwuzzily adv.; ˈwuzziness n.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §174/2 Bewilderment; confusion; muddle. Dopiness,..wooziness, wuzziness. 1964P. Tamony Americanisms (typescript) No. 3. 6 The vagabond/bohemian of the Nineties was ring-tailed in Radicalism, and his descendant of the Twenties fuzzy-tailed prospecting wuzzily a brotherhood of man in Communism-as-a-cure. 1978D. Francis Trial Run xii. 163 There was still a pervading wuzziness in the thinking department. |