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Definition of “woozy

woozy (ˈwuːzɪPronunciation for woozy

Definitions

adjective

Word forms: woozier, wooziest
informal 
  1. dazed or confused
  2. experiencing dizziness, nausea, etc

Alternative Forms

ˈwoozily adverb ˈwooziness noun

Word Origin

C19: perhaps from a blend of woolly  + muzzy  or dizzy

Usage 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.
    Kippax, Frank, 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.
    Aidan Hartley, THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War (2003)

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