woozy (ˈwuːzɪ
)
Definitions
adjective
Word forms: woozier, wooziest
informal - dazed or confused
- experiencing dizziness, nausea, etc
Alternative Forms
ˈwoozily adverb ˈwooziness nounWord Origin
C19: perhaps from a blend of woolly + muzzy or dizzyUsage examples
By five o'clock she was woozy , and Rafferty was still much as she'd found him four hours before, neither incapable nor sober.
, The Scar (1990)For here, direct from the Slightly Pompous Ballad department of their debut album, comes a woozy piano waltz of stately proportions.
NME (New Musical Express) (2002)After his second fumble of the game early in the third quarter, George was sidelined with a concussion, too woozy to return.
Toronto Sun (2003)According to Hilly Elkins, her manager: "She complained of feeling woozy and they left the party and went home.
Times, Sunday Times (2002)One evening I lay on my bed in some fleapit village hotel on the Nile riverbanks, woozy from the last of my Cairo supply of diazepam.
, THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War (2003)