mazyadj.¹n.

Brit.

/ˈmeɪzi/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪzi/

Forms: 1500s macy, 1500s–1600s mazie, 1600s mazi, 1600s– mazey, 1600s– mazy, 1700s meazy (English regional).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: maze n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < maze n.¹ + -y suffix¹.Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. in widespread English regional use in sense A. 1.

A. adj.¹

1. That is in a state of bewilderment or perplexity; giddy, dizzy, confused. Now English regional.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adjective]

yblenta1225

amazed?c1225

wory?c1225

mingedc1275

willc1300

distracta1340

confounded1362

confuse1362

distraitc1374

whapedc1374

wilsomea1375

poseletc1390

distraught1393

perplexa1425

wildc1440

wiltc1440

dodemusydc1450

mistedc1450

unclearc1475

mazed1493

perplexeda1500

traversablea1500

mazyc1525

entangled1561

muddy?1571

distraughted1572

moidered1587

wondering1592

puzzled1598

plundered1601

distracted1604

uncollected1613

wildered1642

turbid1647

tosticated1650

fuddled1656

pixie-led1659

puzzling1692

bumbazed1720

maffled1820

obfuscated1822

confused1825

muddly1829

mystified1833

maze1842

obfusticatedc1844

head-scratching1849

clueless1862

flustery1862

befogged1868

deurmekaar1871

mosy1887

skewgee1890

buggered-up1893

confusticated1898

smock-ravelled1904

messed-up1913

screwed-up1943

hung up1945

lost1967

gravelled-

c1525 MS Royal App. 58 (song) in Anglia 12 268 My hed ys all macy and meruelowsly dothe werke.

?a1656 J. Poole Eng. Parnassus (1657) 84 Doubt,..mazie, musing, jarring, strugling.

?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. (ed. 2) 7 Sumheaw it made meh meazy.

1862 H. Grote Let. 14 July in Lewin Lett. (1909) II. v. 246 I shall surely find him..in a mazy state, pottering over the book-shelves, without the ability to make out the titles.

1896 Daily News 5 Sept. 2/4 Deceased seemed to have accidentally fallen in [the water], probably during a ‘mazy bout’, she being subject to severe headaches.

1945 ‘C. S. Forester’ Commodore 261 He was still a little ‘mazy’, as they said of fuddled men in the village when he was a boy.

1984 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 16/2 Māzi, dizzy.

a. Resembling or of the nature of a maze; full of windings and turnings; labyrinthine, convoluted. Frequently figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves > like a maze or labyrinth

forwrinked14..

mazy1579

coney-vaulted1585

labyrinthian1588

mazelike1596

labyrinth-like1601

Daedalian1607

labyrinthine1632

cuniculous1634

labyrinthed1641

labyrinthala1661

labyrinthiform1805

daedal1818

meandriform1857

mazed1920

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 25 I wont to raunge amydde the mazie thickette.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 288 Not treading Sinnes false mazie measures.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 465 A mazey laberynth of small veines and arteries.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 161 I..prie In every Bush and Brake, where hap may finde The Serpent sleeping, in whose mazie foulds To hide me.

1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) ii. 18 Some thrid the mazy Ringlets of her Hair.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 56 Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ii. 20 Countless and unending orbs In mazy motion intermingled, Yet still fulfilled immutably Eternal nature's law.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Kubla Khan in Christabel 57 Five miles meandering with a mazy motion..the sacred river ran.

1844 T. Hood Haunted House ii, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 5 The cobweb hung across in mazy tangle.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxi. 434 It is hard to keep one's head through this mazy whirl of offices, elections, and nominating conventions.

1923 C. S. Lewis Diary 13 Sept. (1991) 267 It manages..to combine the important and serious unity of a real epic with the mazey charm of a romance.

1977 News of World 17 Apr. 23/1 Their main threat came from veteran left-winger John Aston, whose mazy runs had Brian Attley chasing shadows.

1990 Holiday Which? May 138/4 The most attractive part of Whitby is the mazy old fishing quarter below the abbey.

†b. That moves in a twisting, maze-like course. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective] > moving in winding course

crangling1608

winding1613

glomerating1634

mazy1726

zigzag1752

zigzagging1827

switchback1887

1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 355 With him the youth pursu'd the goat or fawn, Or trac'd the mazy leveret o'er the lawn.

c. Mineralogy. Having convoluted markings. rare. Perhaps Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 465 Mazy alabastrite, of a deep brown, with lighter veins.

3. poetic. Applied to a quality of light: hazy, misty; half-lit, dim.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective] > specifically of light

palec1385

thin1649

mazy1728

low1811

1728 Ld. Lyttelton Blenheim in J. Whaley Coll. Poems (1732) 71 Amid the Mazy Gloom Of this Romantick Wilderness once stood The Bow'r of Rosamonda.

a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 590 When Midnight trims her mazy lamp.

1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 390 The oblivious gulf, whose mazy gloom Ensepulchres so many things.

1977 Y. Menuhin Unfinished Journey xii. 254 He took us out onto the balcony in the half-sultry, pungent Indian night, mazy with the light of more stars than one knew existed.

B. n.

Apparently: a dance in which the dancers move in intricate patterns. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.It is unclear from the quots. whether a specific dance is meant.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]

dance of Macabre?c1430

springc1450

lege de moya1529

bobc1550

lusty gallant1569

duret1613

fading1613

huckler1617

ground-measure1621

entry1631

slatter de pouchc1640

ballo1651

Irish trot1651

omnium gatheruma1652

clutterdepouch1652

upspring1654

passacaglia1659

shuffle1659

passacaille1667

flip-flap1676

chaconne1685

charmer1702

Cheshire-round1706

Louvre1729

stick dance1730

white joke1730

baby dance1744

Nancy Dawson1766

fricassee1775

bumpkin1785

Totentanz1789

Flora('s) dance1790

goombay1790

egg-dance1801

supper dance1820

Congo dance1823

slip-jig1829

bran-dance1833

roly-poly1833

Congo1835

mazy1841

furry1848

bull-dance1855

stampede1856

double-shuffling1859

frog dance1863

hokee-pokee1873

plait dance1876

slow dancing1884

snake dance1895

beast dance1900

soft-shoe1900

cakewalk1902

floral dance1911

snake dance1911

apache dance1912

grizzly bear1912

jazz dance1917

jazz dancing1917

jazz1919

wine-dance1920

camel-walk1921

furry dance1928

snake-dance1931

pas d'action1936

trance dancing1956

touch dance1965

hokey-cokey1966

moonwalk1969

moonwalking1983

Crip Walk1989

mapantsula1990

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lvi. 110 In remembrance of her with whom I shall never again thread the windings of the mazy.

1892 A. Bierce Black Beetles in Amber 266 O mortals all are crazy, Their intellects are hazy; In the growing moon they shake their shoon And trip it in the mazy.

Compounds

mazy-running adj.

ΚΠ

1728 J. Thomson Spring 29 Oh pour The mazy-running Soul of Melody Into my varied Verse!

1744 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons (new ed.) 166 The gutter'd Rocks and mazy-running Clefts.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mazy
释义	mazyadj.¹n. Brit. /ˈmeɪzi/, U.S. /ˈmeɪzi/ Forms: 1500s macy, 1500s–1600s mazie, 1600s mazi, 1600s– mazey, 1600s– mazy, 1700s meazy (English regional). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: maze n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < maze n.¹ + -y suffix¹.Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. in widespread English regional use in sense A. 1. A. adj.¹ 1. That is in a state of bewilderment or perplexity; giddy, dizzy, confused. Now English regional. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adjective] yblenta1225 amazed?c1225 wory?c1225 mingedc1275 willc1300 distracta1340 confounded1362 confuse1362 distraitc1374 whapedc1374 wilsomea1375 poseletc1390 distraught1393 perplexa1425 wildc1440 wiltc1440 dodemusydc1450 mistedc1450 unclearc1475 mazed1493 perplexeda1500 traversablea1500 mazyc1525 entangled1561 muddy?1571 distraughted1572 moidered1587 wondering1592 puzzled1598 plundered1601 distracted1604 uncollected1613 wildered1642 turbid1647 tosticated1650 fuddled1656 pixie-led1659 puzzling1692 bumbazed1720 maffled1820 obfuscated1822 confused1825 muddly1829 mystified1833 maze1842 obfusticatedc1844 head-scratching1849 clueless1862 flustery1862 befogged1868 deurmekaar1871 mosy1887 skewgee1890 buggered-up1893 confusticated1898 smock-ravelled1904 messed-up1913 screwed-up1943 hung up1945 lost1967 gravelled- c1525 MS Royal App. 58 (song) in Anglia 12 268 My hed ys all macy and meruelowsly dothe werke. ?a1656 J. Poole Eng. Parnassus (1657) 84 Doubt,..mazie, musing, jarring, strugling. ?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. (ed. 2) 7 Sumheaw it made meh meazy. 1862 H. Grote Let. 14 July in Lewin Lett. (1909) II. v. 246 I shall surely find him..in a mazy state, pottering over the book-shelves, without the ability to make out the titles. 1896 Daily News 5 Sept. 2/4 Deceased seemed to have accidentally fallen in [the water], probably during a ‘mazy bout’, she being subject to severe headaches. 1945 ‘C. S. Forester’ Commodore 261 He was still a little ‘mazy’, as they said of fuddled men in the village when he was a boy. 1984 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 16/2 Māzi, dizzy. 2. a. Resembling or of the nature of a maze; full of windings and turnings; labyrinthine, convoluted. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves > like a maze or labyrinth forwrinked14.. mazy1579 coney-vaulted1585 labyrinthian1588 mazelike1596 labyrinth-like1601 Daedalian1607 labyrinthine1632 cuniculous1634 labyrinthed1641 labyrinthala1661 labyrinthiform1805 daedal1818 meandriform1857 mazed1920 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 25 I wont to raunge amydde the mazie thickette. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 288 Not treading Sinnes false mazie measures. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 465 A mazey laberynth of small veines and arteries. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 161 I..prie In every Bush and Brake, where hap may finde The Serpent sleeping, in whose mazie foulds To hide me. View more context for this quotation 1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) ii. 18 Some thrid the mazy Ringlets of her Hair. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 56 Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ii. 20 Countless and unending orbs In mazy motion intermingled, Yet still fulfilled immutably Eternal nature's law. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Kubla Khan in Christabel 57 Five miles meandering with a mazy motion..the sacred river ran. 1844 T. Hood Haunted House ii, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 5 The cobweb hung across in mazy tangle. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxi. 434 It is hard to keep one's head through this mazy whirl of offices, elections, and nominating conventions. 1923 C. S. Lewis Diary 13 Sept. (1991) 267 It manages..to combine the important and serious unity of a real epic with the mazey charm of a romance. 1977 News of World 17 Apr. 23/1 Their main threat came from veteran left-winger John Aston, whose mazy runs had Brian Attley chasing shadows. 1990 Holiday Which? May 138/4 The most attractive part of Whitby is the mazy old fishing quarter below the abbey. †b. That moves in a twisting, maze-like course. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective] > moving in winding course crangling1608 winding1613 glomerating1634 mazy1726 zigzag1752 zigzagging1827 switchback1887 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 355 With him the youth pursu'd the goat or fawn, Or trac'd the mazy leveret o'er the lawn. c. Mineralogy. Having convoluted markings. rare. Perhaps Obsolete. ΚΠ 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 465 Mazy alabastrite, of a deep brown, with lighter veins. 3. poetic. Applied to a quality of light: hazy, misty; half-lit, dim. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective] > specifically of light palec1385 thin1649 mazy1728 low1811 1728 Ld. Lyttelton Blenheim in J. Whaley Coll. Poems (1732) 71 Amid the Mazy Gloom Of this Romantick Wilderness once stood The Bow'r of Rosamonda. a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 590 When Midnight trims her mazy lamp. 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 390 The oblivious gulf, whose mazy gloom Ensepulchres so many things. 1977 Y. Menuhin Unfinished Journey xii. 254 He took us out onto the balcony in the half-sultry, pungent Indian night, mazy with the light of more stars than one knew existed. B. n. Apparently: a dance in which the dancers move in intricate patterns. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.It is unclear from the quots. whether a specific dance is meant. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun] dance of Macabre?c1430 springc1450 lege de moya1529 bobc1550 lusty gallant1569 duret1613 fading1613 huckler1617 ground-measure1621 entry1631 slatter de pouchc1640 ballo1651 Irish trot1651 omnium gatheruma1652 clutterdepouch1652 upspring1654 passacaglia1659 shuffle1659 passacaille1667 flip-flap1676 chaconne1685 charmer1702 Cheshire-round1706 Louvre1729 stick dance1730 white joke1730 baby dance1744 Nancy Dawson1766 fricassee1775 bumpkin1785 Totentanz1789 Flora('s) dance1790 goombay1790 egg-dance1801 supper dance1820 Congo dance1823 slip-jig1829 bran-dance1833 roly-poly1833 Congo1835 mazy1841 furry1848 bull-dance1855 stampede1856 double-shuffling1859 frog dance1863 hokee-pokee1873 plait dance1876 slow dancing1884 snake dance1895 beast dance1900 soft-shoe1900 cakewalk1902 floral dance1911 snake dance1911 apache dance1912 grizzly bear1912 jazz dance1917 jazz dancing1917 jazz1919 wine-dance1920 camel-walk1921 furry dance1928 snake-dance1931 pas d'action1936 trance dancing1956 touch dance1965 hokey-cokey1966 moonwalk1969 moonwalking1983 Crip Walk1989 mapantsula1990 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lvi. 110 In remembrance of her with whom I shall never again thread the windings of the mazy. 1892 A. Bierce Black Beetles in Amber 266 O mortals all are crazy, Their intellects are hazy; In the growing moon they shake their shoon And trip it in the mazy. Compounds mazy-running adj. ΚΠ 1728 J. Thomson Spring 29 Oh pour The mazy-running Soul of Melody Into my varied Verse! 1744 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons (new ed.) 166 The gutter'd Rocks and mazy-running Clefts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mazyadj.² Brit. /ˈmeɪzi/, U.S. /ˈmeɪzi/ Forms: 1800s– mazey, 1900s– mazy. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.A corresponding noun maze is suggested by the following quot., but this may simply be inferred from the adjective:1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 139 Herrings about to shoot the roe are said to have the maze. Fishing. Chiefly English regional (East Anglian). Of a fish, esp. a herring: ready or about to spawn; full of roe; (also) sickly. ΚΠ 1866 J. G. Nall Great Yarmouth & Lowestoft 307 The August fish particularly, are mazy, sickly, and full of spawn. 1866 J. G. Nall Great Yarmouth & Lowestoft 601 Mazy, sickly, unwholesome, spawned, applied to shotten and inferior herrings. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 139 Mazy, sickly. 1905 Daily Chron. 3 Oct. 4/5 ‘Mazy’ fish are soft and worthless, good for little but manure. 1984 R. Pinney Smoked Salmon & Oysters xvi. 106 By noticing where the herring are ‘mazey’, i.e. beginning to leak their roes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹n.c1525adj.²1866
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mazyadj.1n.

Compounds

mazyadj.2

mazyadj.¹n.

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