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Definition: Woozy |
WoozyAdjective1. 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) |
(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."
Synonyms: WoozySynonyms: dizzy (adj), giddy (adj), vertiginous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Woozy |
| English words defined with "woozy": dizzy ♦ giddy ♦ vertiginous. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wild and Woozy West (1942) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Music |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "woozy": sad-woozy. | |
| 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 |
boozy dj woozy | 5 |
woozy | 5 |
bottle woozy | 4 |
bottle glass woozy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "woozy" (pronounced wuw"zē) |
| 3 | -uw" z ē | boozy, choosy, doozy, newsy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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