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Muzzy

Definition: Muzzy

Muzzy

Adjective

1. Indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes".

2. Confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Muzzy \Muz"zy\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression muse.]. (references)

 

Synonyms: Muzzy

Synonyms: addled (adj), befuddled (adj), bleary (adj), blurred (adj), blurry (adj), foggy (adj), fuzzy (adj), hazy (adj), muddled (adj), woolly (adj), woolly-headed (adj), wooly (adj), wooly-minded (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Muzzy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Drunkenness

Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk.

Inattention

Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Muzzy

English words defined with "muzzy": Muzziness. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Muzzy

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Muzzy

"Muzzy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.00% of the time. "Muzzy" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)96%2471,196
Noun (proper)4%1339,140
                    Total100.00%25N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Muzzy

The following table summarizes the usage of "muzzy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MuzzyLast name17042,726
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Muzzy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

muzzy

233

muzzy motorcycle

5

muzzy exhaust

104

muzzy bow fishing

4

muzzy broadheads

37

21 century muzzy

4

muzzy spanish

10

french muzzy

3

muzzy archery

9

muzzy product

3

muzzy exhaust system

8

motorcycle muzzy part

3

muzzy racing

7

izzet muzzy

3

bbc muzzy

7

bristol field muzzy

2

muzzy performance

7

luctin muzzy

2

muzzy pipe

6

muzzy motorcycle exhaust

2

language muzzy

6

language muzzy tape

2

estate muzzy real

6

muzzy video

2

muzzy raptor

6

bristol ct field muzzy

2

field muzzy

6

mufflers muzzy

2

muzzy kawasaki

6

muzzy tuzzy

2

muzzy zero effect

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Muzzy

Language Translations for "muzzy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pirë (drunk, drunken, groggy, high, loaded), i dehur (boozy, crocked, drunk, drunken, elevated, exhilarated, far gone, going far, groggy, inebriate, jagged, lit, oiled, pissed, potted, queer, screwed up, screwy, sozzled, tanked). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مشوش الذهن (dizzy, muddle-headed, woozy), ‏صورة مهتزة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

смутен (abashed, confused, constrained, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, muddle-headed, perplexed, perturbed, raddle, self conscious, sheepish, uneasy, unrestful), оглупял (besotted, infatuated), объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), мъгляв (dusky, filmy, nebulous), зашеметен (besotted, dizzy, silly, vertiginous), пийнал (blotto, exhilarated, fresh, glorious, groggy, half seas over, lit, mellow, merry, rocky, sprung, tipsy, vinous). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nanicovatý (good for nothing). (various references)

   

French

  

confus, éméché. (various references)

   

German

  

verzerrt (contorted, distorted, distorts, drawn, ghastly, tortured, warped, warps), verschwommen (ambiguous, bleary, blurred, blurry, dim, dreamy, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, shadowy, vague, woolly), benommen (bemused, dazed, giddily, groggy, light-headed, numb, punch-drink, stunned), benebelt (befogged, dazed, dopey, light-headed, sottish, woozy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαστισμένοσ (bemused), ζαλισμένοσ (dazed, dizzy, giddy, tipsy, vertiginous, woozy), αφηρημένοσ (absent, absent minded, abstract, abstracted, far away). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מטושטש (hazy, woolly), פזור פש (absent minded, abstraction, bird witted, scatterbrained), עמום (abstruse, dim, faint, frosting, fuzzy, obscure, obtuse, opaque, tarnish, vague). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

unalmas (bald, boring, cut and dried, dry, dull, dusty, groaty, grotty, heavy, humdrum, insipid, languid, pokey, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, tedious, tiresome, tiring, witless), nehézfejű (dense headed, dim-witted, doltish, lumpish, opaque, pokey, poky, to be slow on the uptake), elbutult (sodden), egyhangú (dull, humdrum, jog trot, jog-trot, monotone, monotonic, monotonous, unanimous, unexciting), bamba (boob, booby, oafish, simple, tomfool). (various references)

   

Italian

  

istupidito, intontito (dazed, groggy, numb, stunned), inebetito (dazed, dopey, dopy). (various references)

   

Manx

  

shaghraneagh (truant, vagabond, vagrant), dullyr (black, black as outlook, blear, blear of outline, dim, dimness, dingy, dusky, fuzzy, gloom, gloomy, lowering, opaque). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uzzymay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

tapado (thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted), sem graça (clumsy, flatly, milk-and-water, platitudinous, savorless, savourless, tubby, uncomely, unshapely, unsightly), obtuso de espírito, insípido (flat, flavorless, flavourless, frigid, insipid, jejune, mawkish, milk-and-water, pointless, sapless, savorless, savourless, stale, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, washy, watery, wishy-washy), enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotone, monotonous, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, wearisome, weary), aturdido (bewildered, deafened, stunned). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

zãpãcit (confounded, confused, dawdler, dim, distracted, dizzy, flighty, giddy, hare-brained, headless, light-headed, madcap, muddle-headed, mused, off one's dot, perplexedly, rash, reckless, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, topsy turvy, woolly-headed, wronghead, wrongheaded), confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded), beat (befuddled, boozy, cock eyed, drunk, drunken, elevated, groggy, in drink, in one's cups, in wine, inebriate, intoxicated, on the fuddle, pickled, pie-eyed, queer, screwed, sottish, squiffed, tight, tipsy), ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сбитый с толку, неясный (ambiguous, cloudy, dicey, dimmish, dreamy, dubious, dull, esoteric, faint, indistinct, inexplicit, misty, nebulous, obscure, recondite, shady, unaccounted-for, unarticulate, unarticulated, unclear). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

maglovit (brumous, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulous, vague), bunovan (delirious). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

confuso de embriaguez, borroso (bleary, blurred, faint, fuzzy, indistinct, smudgy, vague), atontado de embriaguez. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

suddig (blurred, foggy, fuzzy, smudgy), otydlig (bleary, diaphanous, faint, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, obscure, vague). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เลือนราง, ซึ่งสับสน (bemused, tangled). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), kasvetli (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressive, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grave, howling, lugubrious, melancholy, mopish, pitchy, sable, sad, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, waste), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

напідпитку (beery, capernoited, oiled, pye-eyed, tipsy, up the pole, well oiled), заплутаний (complex, complicated, entangled, implicate, inextricable, intricate, involved, knotted, knotty, mazy, perplexed, tangled, wandered), здурілий (cuckoo, gaga, silly). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

mụ mẫm, trì độn say mèm, ngây dại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Muzzy

Misspellings

"Muzzy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buzzy, huzzy, Mazz, Mazzy, Mezy, mizy, mizz, Mizzi, mizzu, mozy, mozz, Mozza, mozzie, Murzi, muz, muza, muziek, Muzny, muzz, uzzy, wuzzy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Muzzy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "muzzy" (pronounced mu"zē)
3-u" z ēfuzzy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Muzzy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "m-u-y-z-z"

-2 letters: yum.

-3 letters: mu, my, um.

 Words containing the letters "m-u-y-z-z"
 

+2 letters: muzzily.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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