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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
woozy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ When I stood up, I felt a little woozy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Firebug gave him the address as he rushed out of the apartment and down the stairs on woozy legs.
▪ Giving blood makes her go all woozy, it seems.
▪ Jody, on the sidelines, felt a little woozy herself.
▪ She was unused to booze, the bloody Marys; still a little woozy.
▪ The woozy aftermath of surgery can feel equally surreal.
▪ The bad news: A concussion that left Young woozy and knocked him out of the game.
▪ The town was getting a woozy, criminal feeling that rather matched his own.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
woozy

"muddled or dazed, as with drink," 1897, American English colloquial, variant of oozy "muddy," or an alteration of boozy. It is recorded in 1896 as student slang, but with a sense "foolish, behind the times," also "pleasant, delightful."

Wiktionary
woozy

a. queasy, dizzy, disoriented, or drunk

WordNet
woozy
  1. adj. 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" [syn: dizzy, giddy, vertiginous]

  2. [also: wooziest, woozier]

Wikipedia
Woozy

Woozy may refer to:

  • Woozy (Oz), a fictional creature in the children's novel The Patchwork Girl of Oz
  • Woozy Winks, the sidekick of fictional superhero Plastic Man
  • "Woozy", a track by Faithless used in the soundtrack to The Beach
  • Woozy (artist), a Greek street artist
Woozy (artist)

Woozy is the tag of renowned Greek street artist/ muralist Vaggelis Hoursoglou (born 1984 ). He has been painting large-scale murals for nearly 20 years in a number of countries around the world. His work has been a crucial aspect in the graffiti scene in Greece.

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Woozy (band)

Woozy was an American experimental rock band from New Orleans.

Usage examples of "woozy".

Still woozy from painkillers, Stauffer had been bold enough to ask him why he treated the Woos so inhumanely.

She was still woozy, as she tended to be after astral separation, but knew she had to report quickly.

No longer trapped in an enclosed space with a potential bomb or an armed terrorist, the audience became better Samaritans and helped those who were woozy or hurt.

He was strapped down, woozy from the preliminary drugs that had been administered by the anesthesiologists.

She felt woozy, as if her soul and r her body were attached by only the thinnest of threads.

I felt woozy and finished bogey, bogey, double-bogey, double-bogey, to shoot 91.

There you are, woozy from presurgical relaxers, and a perfect stranger waltzes up, announces that he is your anesthesiologist, asks you a few questions, and shoots you up!

Bambi admitted Woozy the attorney, a long, cold, hairless being with the personality of a baited rat-trap and a briefcase of imitation lizard-skin.

Charlotte looked at the big woozy face before herand she surprised herself.

The alcohol went straight to my head: Within seconds I was woozy and I had to sit on the bed.

Twenty-second century as if both of them had been there, the science fiction writer expostulating woozy expository lumps, and the Comic from the Future, never breaking character, turning it into schtick.

Even woozy as he is, it takes him less than a minute to break into a locked car and hot-wire it.

Me, lying in a special royal infirmary, woozy and out of touch, while the streets filled up with mutineers.

Who sat in a basement wearing a dumb-ass hairdo and getting woozy on Pabst Blue Ribbons.

Mia, feeling woozy with relief and shock, took Gabi home and put her to bed.