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Lollapalooza
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doozy
Alternative clues for the word doozy
Word definitions for doozy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also doozie , 1903 (adj.), 1916 (n.), perhaps an alteration of daisy , or from popular Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1859-1924). In either case, reinforced by Duesenberg , the expensive, classy make of automobile from the 1920s-30s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Then I went on a drinking binge that was a real doozy .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context slang dated English) Of high quality; remarkable; excellent. (1903) 2 (context slang US archaic English) sporty, ostentatious, flashy. (1911) n. (context US English) something that is extraordinary. Often used in the context of troublesome, ...
Usage examples of doozy.
Manchile lead him off the steamboat to his new Doozy, parked right on the black ice off the boat ramp.
Manchile snapped the Doozy through a lashing 180-degree turn, applied sand, and blasted up the ramp.
No, about the correspondence, we seem to have exhausted the real fruitcakes, but Al Green got a doozy this morning.
The vaulting viruses, all those wowsers and doozies and lulus, are of course increasingly numerous but they seem to have simmered down a good deal.