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Definition: Mazy |
MazyAdjective1. Resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mazy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1734. (references) |
Note: Mazy \Ma"zy\, adjective. [From Maze.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: MazySynonyms: labyrinthian (adj), labyrinthine (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convolution | Adjective: convoluted; winding, twisted; Verb: tortile, tortive; wavy; undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine; serpent, anguill, vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid; sigmoid, sigmoidal; spiriferous, spiroid; |
Secret | Adjective: secret; (concealed); involved labyrinthine, labyrinthian, mazy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mazy |
| English words defined with "mazy": Anfracture ♦ Mazeful, Mazily, Maziness. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mazy": Mazeful. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Mazy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mazy" is used about 10 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mazy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mazy | Last name | 170 | 42,927 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mazy": mazy-patterned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dazy head mazy | 13 |
mazy star | 5 |
mazy mistress | 3 |
nike air visi mazy | 3 |
mazy | 3 |
mazy starr | 2 |
mazy nike visi | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mazy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i koklavitur (complicated, inextricable, involute, tangly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | с криволичещи завои, като лабиринт, объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), заплетен (anfractuous, complex, convoluted, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, sinuous, tangly, tortuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zmatený (addle-brained, addle-pated, bemused, bewildered, chaotic, confused, disordered, embroiled, in confusion, mixed, muddy, screwed up, turbid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wirr (chaotic, confused, crazed, disordered, garbled, helter-skelter, incoherent, incoherently, light-headed, mazily, tangled, weird, wild, woolly, woozily), labyrinthisch (labyrinthine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πολύπλοκοσ (complex, complicated, intricate), λαβυρινθώδησ (labyrinthine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zűrzavaros (anarchic, anarchical, chaotic, deranged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | labirintico, intricato (complicated, intricate, knotty, tricky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | azymay mazurca, perplexo (confused, foible, perplexed, perplexity), labiríntico (daedal, daedalian, lac), intricado (crab, crabbed, intricate), emaranhado (matted, medley, tangly), confuso (abrupt, abstruse, blear, cloudy, confused, disorderly, disturber, dizzy, hugger mugger, indistinguishable, intricate, jumbled up, labyrinthine, lacklustre, medley, messy, mixed, muddy, obscure, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, rigmarole, rough and tumble, tangly, topsy turvy). (various references) ca un labirint, ca de labirint. (various references) запутанный (anfractuous, complected, complicated, crinkum-crankum, Daedalian, embroiled, entangled, implex, inextricable, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, perplexed, tangly). (various references) zbrkan (confused, fuddled, hugger mugger, jumbled, messy, muddled, muddleheaded, muddle-headed, pell mell), lavirintni. (various references) embrollado (embroiled, perplexed, scrambled). (various references) förvirrande (baffling). (various references) karışık (adulterated, blended, calico, chequered, combined, complicated, composite, compound, confused, deep, disconcerted, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hybrid, inexplicit, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, kinky, knotted, knotty, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, obscure, out of square, promiscuous, turbid, unclassified, unsized, woolly, wooly), dolaşık (circuitous, entangled, entwined, foul, kinky, tortuous). (various references) складний (complex, complicated, composite, compound, decomposite, elaborate, intricate, involute, involved, jointed, multiplex, operose, profound, tangled, tickle, tricky), заплутаний (complex, complicated, entangled, implicate, inextricable, intricate, involved, knotted, knotty, muzzy, perplexed, tangled, wandered). (various references) rối rắm (daedal, daedalian, tangly), quanh co (anfractuous, crinkum-crankum, crooked, meanderingly, meandrine, oblique, sinuous, tortuous, twisty), khó lần ra manh mối. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Mazy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: madzi, magz, Mahy, Maisby, Maiyu, maizy, Manzie, masie, mauz, maxy, maz, mazi, Mazie, mazu, Mazz, Mazzy, Mezy, miqy, miz, Mizieb, mizy, Mizzi, mozy, Muzny, mz, mza, Mzi, pazy, smaczny, Umlazi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "mazy" (pronounced 'Ma"zy'): Crazy, Frouzy, frowzy, hazy, lazy, Mizzy, Muzzy, sleazy, Tozy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-y-z" | |
-1 letter: may, yam. | |
-2 letters: am, ay, ma, my, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-y-z" | |
+2 letters: mazily, zygoma, zymase. | |
+3 letters: mazedly, zygomas, zymases, zymosan. | |
+4 letters: amazedly, schmalzy, shmaltzy, zygomata, zymogram, zymosans. | |
+5 letters: amazingly, apoenzyme, enzymatic, martyrize, schmaltzy, zemindary, zygomatic, zymograms. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 7A 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- --.. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01111010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a z y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 007A 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47679291 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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