Crossword clues for doozy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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, difficult or problematic, but can be used positively as well.
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.