hazyadj.

Brit.

/ˈheɪzi/, U.S.

/ˈheɪzi/

Forms: 1500s–1600s hazye, 1600s haizy, 1600s hasey, 1600s hasie, 1600s hawsey, 1600s hazie, 1600s heysey, 1600s–1700s hazey, 1600s– hazy, 1700s haisy; also Scottish 1800s haizie, 1800s hazzie; Manx English 1900s– hazzy; Irish English 1600s heasy.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: haze n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: Apparently < haze n. + -y suffix¹.

a. Originally Nautical. (Of the atmosphere, weather, etc.) characterized by the presence of haze; covered or obscured by a haze; suggestive of or resembling haze.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adjective]

mistyOE

nebulose?1440

roky1440

nubilousc1540

hazya1584

misting1584

vaporous1594

nebulous1597

rawky1601

claggy1621

misky1671

rooky1691

nubilose1730

mistful1733

smoky1769

rouky1808

hazed1840

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adjective] > hazy

lighta1425

moky1706

hazy1715

a1584 S. Borough in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 313 Wee sawe the lande through the cloudes and hazye thwarte on the broade side.

1625 F. Stewart Let. 16 Aug. in S. R. Gardiner Documents Impeachm. Duke of Buckingham (1889) ii. 9 The weather beeing thicke and hawsey, the winde highe.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 27 Moystnesse of the Ayre..which the Seamen call a Heysey weather..as though the sunne shine out bright, yet we cannot see his body, till nine a clock.

1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 187 He that rides over Boscawen-woon Heath in an hasie morning, may see how the Cornish Choughs pearched upon the stones.

1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 241 The Air being light, though moist and a little hazy.

1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 2 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. The Air was haizy and full of fogs and snow, so that we could not see far.

1715 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 250 A diffused Light which made the Air seem hazey.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. vii. 72 We had little wind, with thick hazy weather.

1771 L. Carter Diary 19 July (1965) II. 596 It began yesterday to be hazy and greazy.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Mone A brugh, or hazy circle round the moon is accounted a certain prognostic of rain.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) i. 64 It was too hazy to see anything in the distance.

1881 Sporting Times Jan. 8 7/2 All that is most lovely belonging to landscape—wood and water, softly swelling hills and hazy distance—is epitomised.

1919 A. Merritt Moon Pool 73 The brighter stars shone out dimly through a hazy sky.

1924 A. D. H. Smith Porto Bello Gold ii. 24 The hazy blue atmosphere of the taproom,..foul with smoke.

1966 Weekly News (Auckland) 1 June 16/3 Smoke is drifting, blue and hazy, through the kanukas above the campfire.

2009 Times (Nexis) 6 June (Weekend section) 24 Mudflats gleamed in the hazy sunshine.

b. Medicine. (Of the cornea, lens, etc., of the eye) exhibiting opacity or cloudiness. Also: designating vision characterized by a loss of visual clarity, contrast, or brightness typically associated with such opacity, esp. as a (temporary) result of surgery which reshapes the cornea.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > dim

filmed1637

hazy1818

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > disorders of cornea

carcinomatous1753

hazy1818

steamy1869

pannous1890

photophthalmic1913

1818 Q. Jrnl. Foreign Med. & Surg. 1 70 The whole cornea now becomes uniformly hazy, losing its clearness without being in any place actually untransparent.

1886 Arch. Ophthalmol. 15 21 The left [eye had] a hazy lens with still fair vision.

1917 M. L. Foster Diagnosis from Ocular Symptoms xiii. 284 A cloudiness of the cornea which causes hazy vision and colored rings about lights.

1949 J. Minton Occup. Eye Dis. & Injuries iii. 25 The retina could not be seen as the vitreous was very hazy.

1996 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Aug. 414/2 A patient who presents with the sudden onset of a painful, red eye with reduced visual acuity, a hazy cornea, and a fixed semidilated pupil.

2005 Times 30 July (Body & Soul section) 9 My vision is hazy, like someone has smeared Vaseline on the world.

2. figurative.

a. colloquial. Somewhat mentally confused, befuddled, spec. from taking alcoholic drink or drugs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk

merrya1382

semi-bousyc1460

pipe merry1542

totty1570

tipsy1577

martin-drunk1592

pleasant1596

mellow1611

tip-merry1612

flustered1615

lusticka1616

well to live1619

jolly1652

happy1662

hazy1673

top-heavy1687

hearty1695

half-seas-over1699

oiled1701

mellowish1703

half channelled over1709

drunkish1710

half-and-half1718

touched1722

uppisha1726

tosie1727

bosky1730

funny1751

fairish1756

cherry-merry1769

in suds1770

muddy1776

glorious1790

groggified1796

well-corned1800

fresh1804

to be mops and brooms1814

foggy1816

how-come-ye-so1816

screwy1820

off the nail1821

on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821

swipey1821

muggy1822

rosy1823

snuffy1823

spreeish1825

elevated1827

up a stump1829

half-cockedc1830

tightish1830

tipsified1830

half shaved1834

screwed1837

half-shot1838

squizzed1845

drinky1846

a sheet in the wind1862

tight1868

toppy1885

tiddly1905

oiled-up1918

bonkers1943

sloshed1946

tiddled1956

hickey-

1673 R. Hooke Diary 19 Mar. (1935) 35 Went shivering and hazy like an ague to bed.

1699 Country Gentleman's Vade-mecum v. 28 If he can prevail with no body to do him the Favour to stay here, and be drunk with him, then in a sort of hazy condition, he blunders to the Play-house..where he sleeps, farts, and stinks for an Hour or two.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xxxii. 302 Lord, what can Bridoon be standing swinging on the bridge for? I'll be hanged if he a'nt hazy .

1824 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 1st Ser. II. 10 Hazy, Sir, you understand: smoking and drinking.

1832 Amer. Monthly Rev. Sept. 244 That kind of sentimental slang, which the hazy heads and dyspeptic stomachs of rowdy poetasters have unhappily brought into vogue.

a1835 J. Affleck Posthumous Poet. Wks. (1836) 132 Ye're doitit, dais'd, an' haizie: Oh, how drink degrades the man!

1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Cuthbert in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 225 Staggering about just as if he were ‘hazy’.

1911 Atlanta Constit. 24 Mar. 3/3 By that time I was kinder getting hazy.

1935 N. Ersine Underworld & Prison Slang 72 Stirnuts, mentally hazy because of long imprisonment.

1940 L. Bromfield Night in Bombay 64 Bill had begun to feel pleasantly hazy.

1999 ‘Eurydice’ Satyricon USA 66 She sits on my bed and cries for a while, fists clenched... I find her hazy, possibly endorphin-overdosed.

2011 M. McAllister Whiting up vi. 246 A hazy, weed-impaired Dave knows he should talk Chip out of this risky move.

b. Lacking intellectual clarity; vague, ill-defined, uncertain.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adjective] > obscure, vague

cloudyc1400

indeterminatec1400

diffuse1430

diffused?1456

obscure?a1475

infinite1520

ambiguous1529

indistincta1530

nubilous1533

dark1557

undetermined1588

undefinite1589

undeterminate1603

indetermined1611

undefined1611

suspense1624

umbrageous1635

clouded1641

undeterminated1641

fuliginous1646

implicit1660

vague1690

diffusive1709

nubilose1730

foggy1737

unliquidated1780

hazy1781

indecisive1815

nebulous1817

penumbral1819

aoristic1846

scumbled1868

nubiform1873

out-of-focus1891

fuzzy1937

soft focus1938

1781 R. Glynn Narr. conc. Strange & Deplorable Frenzy 38 A very different person knocked at the door, whose presence soon dispelled those hazy ideas, which rather obscured my intellect during the last conversation.

1831 C. Lamb Peter's Net ii, in Englishman's Mag. Oct. 138 A hazy uncertain delicacy.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 35 His communications about the material wants of life were hazy.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iii. 21 Some hazy idea.

1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. iii. 97 The chief article of Rousseau's rather hazy creed.

1922 ‘B. M. Bower’ Trail of White Mule vi. 107 Casey had a hazy recollection of wanting to see the boss and have it out with him, but he could not recall what it was that he had been so anxious to quarrel about.

1958 ‘M. Innes’ Long Farewell 72 Appleby, although hazy about bibliopegy, was quite certain he wasn't a distinguished student of it.

2004 Chile Pepper Feb. 33/2 Those days are a hazy memory.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hazy
释义	hazyadj. Brit. /ˈheɪzi/, U.S. /ˈheɪzi/ Forms: 1500s–1600s hazye, 1600s haizy, 1600s hasey, 1600s hasie, 1600s hawsey, 1600s hazie, 1600s heysey, 1600s–1700s hazey, 1600s– hazy, 1700s haisy; also Scottish 1800s haizie, 1800s hazzie; Manx English 1900s– hazzy; Irish English 1600s heasy. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: haze n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: Apparently < haze n. + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Originally Nautical. (Of the atmosphere, weather, etc.) characterized by the presence of haze; covered or obscured by a haze; suggestive of or resembling haze. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adjective] mistyOE nebulose?1440 roky1440 nubilousc1540 hazya1584 misting1584 vaporous1594 nebulous1597 rawky1601 claggy1621 misky1671 rooky1691 nubilose1730 mistful1733 smoky1769 rouky1808 hazed1840 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adjective] > hazy lighta1425 moky1706 hazy1715 a1584 S. Borough in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 313 Wee sawe the lande through the cloudes and hazye thwarte on the broade side. 1625 F. Stewart Let. 16 Aug. in S. R. Gardiner Documents Impeachm. Duke of Buckingham (1889) ii. 9 The weather beeing thicke and hawsey, the winde highe. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 27 Moystnesse of the Ayre..which the Seamen call a Heysey weather..as though the sunne shine out bright, yet we cannot see his body, till nine a clock. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 187 He that rides over Boscawen-woon Heath in an hasie morning, may see how the Cornish Choughs pearched upon the stones. 1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 241 The Air being light, though moist and a little hazy. 1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 2 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. The Air was haizy and full of fogs and snow, so that we could not see far. 1715 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 250 A diffused Light which made the Air seem hazey. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. vii. 72 We had little wind, with thick hazy weather. 1771 L. Carter Diary 19 July (1965) II. 596 It began yesterday to be hazy and greazy. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Mone A brugh, or hazy circle round the moon is accounted a certain prognostic of rain. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) i. 64 It was too hazy to see anything in the distance. 1881 Sporting Times Jan. 8 7/2 All that is most lovely belonging to landscape—wood and water, softly swelling hills and hazy distance—is epitomised. 1919 A. Merritt Moon Pool 73 The brighter stars shone out dimly through a hazy sky. 1924 A. D. H. Smith Porto Bello Gold ii. 24 The hazy blue atmosphere of the taproom,..foul with smoke. 1966 Weekly News (Auckland) 1 June 16/3 Smoke is drifting, blue and hazy, through the kanukas above the campfire. 2009 Times (Nexis) 6 June (Weekend section) 24 Mudflats gleamed in the hazy sunshine. b. Medicine. (Of the cornea, lens, etc., of the eye) exhibiting opacity or cloudiness. Also: designating vision characterized by a loss of visual clarity, contrast, or brightness typically associated with such opacity, esp. as a (temporary) result of surgery which reshapes the cornea. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > dim filmed1637 hazy1818 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > disorders of cornea carcinomatous1753 hazy1818 steamy1869 pannous1890 photophthalmic1913 1818 Q. Jrnl. Foreign Med. & Surg. 1 70 The whole cornea now becomes uniformly hazy, losing its clearness without being in any place actually untransparent. 1886 Arch. Ophthalmol. 15 21 The left [eye had] a hazy lens with still fair vision. 1917 M. L. Foster Diagnosis from Ocular Symptoms xiii. 284 A cloudiness of the cornea which causes hazy vision and colored rings about lights. 1949 J. Minton Occup. Eye Dis. & Injuries iii. 25 The retina could not be seen as the vitreous was very hazy. 1996 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Aug. 414/2 A patient who presents with the sudden onset of a painful, red eye with reduced visual acuity, a hazy cornea, and a fixed semidilated pupil. 2005 Times 30 July (Body & Soul section) 9 My vision is hazy, like someone has smeared Vaseline on the world. 2. figurative. a. colloquial. Somewhat mentally confused, befuddled, spec. from taking alcoholic drink or drugs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk merrya1382 semi-bousyc1460 pipe merry1542 totty1570 tipsy1577 martin-drunk1592 pleasant1596 mellow1611 tip-merry1612 flustered1615 lusticka1616 well to live1619 jolly1652 happy1662 hazy1673 top-heavy1687 hearty1695 half-seas-over1699 oiled1701 mellowish1703 half channelled over1709 drunkish1710 half-and-half1718 touched1722 uppisha1726 tosie1727 bosky1730 funny1751 fairish1756 cherry-merry1769 in suds1770 muddy1776 glorious1790 groggified1796 well-corned1800 fresh1804 to be mops and brooms1814 foggy1816 how-come-ye-so1816 screwy1820 off the nail1821 on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821 swipey1821 muggy1822 rosy1823 snuffy1823 spreeish1825 elevated1827 up a stump1829 half-cockedc1830 tightish1830 tipsified1830 half shaved1834 screwed1837 half-shot1838 squizzed1845 drinky1846 a sheet in the wind1862 tight1868 toppy1885 tiddly1905 oiled-up1918 bonkers1943 sloshed1946 tiddled1956 hickey- 1673 R. Hooke Diary 19 Mar. (1935) 35 Went shivering and hazy like an ague to bed. 1699 Country Gentleman's Vade-mecum v. 28 If he can prevail with no body to do him the Favour to stay here, and be drunk with him, then in a sort of hazy condition, he blunders to the Play-house..where he sleeps, farts, and stinks for an Hour or two. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xxxii. 302 Lord, what can Bridoon be standing swinging on the bridge for? I'll be hanged if he a'nt hazy . View more context for this quotation 1824 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 1st Ser. II. 10 Hazy, Sir, you understand: smoking and drinking. 1832 Amer. Monthly Rev. Sept. 244 That kind of sentimental slang, which the hazy heads and dyspeptic stomachs of rowdy poetasters have unhappily brought into vogue. a1835 J. Affleck Posthumous Poet. Wks. (1836) 132 Ye're doitit, dais'd, an' haizie: Oh, how drink degrades the man! 1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Cuthbert in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 225 Staggering about just as if he were ‘hazy’. 1911 Atlanta Constit. 24 Mar. 3/3 By that time I was kinder getting hazy. 1935 N. Ersine Underworld & Prison Slang 72 Stirnuts, mentally hazy because of long imprisonment. 1940 L. Bromfield Night in Bombay 64 Bill had begun to feel pleasantly hazy. 1999 ‘Eurydice’ Satyricon USA 66 She sits on my bed and cries for a while, fists clenched... I find her hazy, possibly endorphin-overdosed. 2011 M. McAllister Whiting up vi. 246 A hazy, weed-impaired Dave knows he should talk Chip out of this risky move. b. Lacking intellectual clarity; vague, ill-defined, uncertain. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adjective] > obscure, vague cloudyc1400 indeterminatec1400 diffuse1430 diffused?1456 obscure?a1475 infinite1520 ambiguous1529 indistincta1530 nubilous1533 dark1557 undetermined1588 undefinite1589 undeterminate1603 indetermined1611 undefined1611 suspense1624 umbrageous1635 clouded1641 undeterminated1641 fuliginous1646 implicit1660 vague1690 diffusive1709 nubilose1730 foggy1737 unliquidated1780 hazy1781 indecisive1815 nebulous1817 penumbral1819 aoristic1846 scumbled1868 nubiform1873 out-of-focus1891 fuzzy1937 soft focus1938 1781 R. Glynn Narr. conc. Strange & Deplorable Frenzy 38 A very different person knocked at the door, whose presence soon dispelled those hazy ideas, which rather obscured my intellect during the last conversation. 1831 C. Lamb Peter's Net ii, in Englishman's Mag. Oct. 138 A hazy uncertain delicacy. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 35 His communications about the material wants of life were hazy. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iii. 21 Some hazy idea. 1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. iii. 97 The chief article of Rousseau's rather hazy creed. 1922 ‘B. M. Bower’ Trail of White Mule vi. 107 Casey had a hazy recollection of wanting to see the boss and have it out with him, but he could not recall what it was that he had been so anxious to quarrel about. 1958 ‘M. Innes’ Long Farewell 72 Appleby, although hazy about bibliopegy, was quite certain he wasn't a distinguished student of it. 2004 Chile Pepper Feb. 33/2 Those days are a hazy memory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1584
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