Woozy

  

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Woozy

Definition: Woozy

Woozy

Adjective

1. Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff".

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

Date "woozy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Woozy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Woozy is a fictional creature in the children's novel The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum. It is blue, squarish, and its eyes flash fire when angry. For a more detailed description, see: http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/ozites/oz0554.htm.

In addition, Woozy is also an English word meaning either hazy or dizzy, depending on the context.

There is also a CD called Woozy, here is it's Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004T24N.

Woozy was also the name of one of the songs in the sound track of the movie Romeo Must Die. Here is the Amazon page for the entire album: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004R95K/.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Woozy."

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Synonyms: Woozy

Synonyms: dizzy (adj), giddy (adj), vertiginous (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Woozy

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

Drunkenness

Woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Woozy

English words defined with "woozy": dizzygiddyvertiginous. (references)

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Modern Usage: Woozy

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Wild and Woozy West (1942)

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

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Commercial Usage: Woozy

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Woozy

Computer Images:
Woozy

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Non-Fiction Usage: Woozy

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Lightheadedness or feeling woozy. (references)

A balance disorder is a disturbance that causes an individual to feel unsteady, giddy, woozy, or have a sensation of movement, spinning, or floating. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Woozy

"Woozy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Woozy" is used about 9 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)100%9117,287

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

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Expression: Woozy

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "woozy": sad-woozy.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Woozy

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

boozy dj woozy

5

woozy

5

bottle woozy

4

bottle glass woozy

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Woozy

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

Albanian

  

i turbullt (blank, cloudy, dim, dimmish, dreamy, dull, dusky, feculent, foggy, indistinct, lax, misty, muddy, obscure, shadowy, thick, turbid, turbulent, vague), i ngatërruar (embarrassing, embroiled, entangled, haywire, immersed, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mixed, muddy, tangly, tricky), i mjegulluar (bedimmed, blear, bleary, foggy, hazy, misty), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مشوش الذهن (dizzy, muddle-headed, muzzy). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

замаян (dizzy, giddy, groggy, light, light-headed, poppied, punch-drunk, rocky, silly), леко пийнал (squiffy). (various references)

   

French

  

nébuleux. (various references)

   

German

  

benebelt (befogged, dazed, dopey, light-headed, muzzy, sottish). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ζαλισμένοσ (dazed, dizzy, giddy, muzzy, tipsy, vertiginous), θολόσ (blear, bleary, blurred, clouded, hazy, muddy, opaque, roily, splashy, thick, turbid). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שכור ומבולבל. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szédülékeny, részeg (be in liquor, blind, blind drunk, boiled, bosky, drunk, frog's march, fuddled, have been in the sun, have the sun in one's eyes, laced, lit-up, loaded, lush, lushy, overtaken in drink, overtaken with drink, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, tanked, tiddly, tipsy, to be blitzed out, to be bust, to be busted, to be hot, to be phazed, to be up the pole, to be way-out, to be zipped, to be zonked out), bizonytalan (choppy, cranky, dicey, dim, dubious, elusive, equivocal, faint, faltering, fickle, have cold feet, hazy, hesitating, indefinite, indeterminate, insecure, irresolute, nondescript, obscure, pennky, precarious, questionable, sandy, scratchy, shaky, speculative, suspensive, to be in the air, to hang in the air, to hang in the balance, transcendental, uncertain, unsettled, unsteady, unsure, vague), beteges (bad, fragile, ill-conditioned, indisposed, infirm, morbid, pathological, seedy, sickly, weak, weakly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oozyway.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

ошалелый, одурелый (mixed), пьяный (blind drunk, blotto, boozy, drunken, foxed, high, in drink, in wine, inebriate, lush, pickled, pissed, pixilated, plastered, queer, screwed, sewed up, soused, sozzled, squiffed, tanked, wet). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ošamućen (barmy, besotted, dazed, dizzy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mareado y confuso. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vimsig (fey, pixilated). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid), sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, zonked), kafası karışık (fey). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

очманілий (besotted, gaga, slaphappy), п'яний (banged, blind drunk, boiled, boozy, canned, disguised, drunk, drunken, groggy, inebriate, intoxicate, lush, malty, noggy, pickled, pie-eyed, pizz, plastered, raddled, screwed, sodden, soused, sozzled, sozzly, under the table, vinous, wall eyed, wet, winy, zigzag). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Woozy

Misspellings

"Woozy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: koozy, loozy, whooy, wizzy, woiy, wooky, woony, woose, Woosey, woosh, woosie, woovy, wooy, wooz, wooze, woozie, wosy, wousy, wouzy, wouzzy, woz, woze, wozy, wuz, wuzzy. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Woozy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "woozy" (pronounced wuw"zē)
3-uw" z ēboozy, choosy, doozy, newsy.

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Anagrams: Woozy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "o-o-w-y-z"

-1 letter: oozy.

-2 letters: woo, yow, zoo.

-3 letters: ow, oy, wo, yo.

 Words containing the letters "o-o-w-y-z"
 

+2 letters: woozily.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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