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muzzy

muzzy adjective: blurred, hazy, indistinct, unfocussed.

Adjective

muzzy (comparative muzzier, superlative muzziest)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal) Blurred, hazy, indistinct, unfocussed.
    • The Handel excerpts are afflicted with a combination of high surface noise from the source material as well as variably muzzy sound.1979, Journal - Association for Recorded Sound Collections
    Synonyms:
    indistinct
  2. Bewildered; dazed.
    Synonyms:
    confused
  3. Tipsy; drunk; involving drunkenness.
    • Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.1770, Samuel Foote, The Lame Lover, a Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: […] Paul Vaillant; and sold by P[eter] Elmsly […]; and Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 12
    • To the muzzy drumming of beer in his veins he gazed long and owlishly at the sombre cottage[.]1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 112
    Synonyms:
    buzzed

Noun (1)

muzzy (plural muzzies)

  1. (offensive, slang) A Muslim.
    • "Ethiopia is a fortress of Christianity surrounded by Muzzies," said Tesfaye. His description paraphrased the words of Emperor Menelik II1999, Julia Stewart, Eccentric Graces: Eritrea & Ethiopia Through the Eyes of a Traveler, page 138

Noun (2)

muzzy (plural muzzies)

  1. (Liverpool, Manchester) moustache

Proper noun capitalized: Muzzy

Muzzy (plural Muzzys)

  1. A surname.

muzzy meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

muzzy in Tamil

மந்தமான, எழுச்சியற்ற

muzzy in Malayalam

dizzy, groggy, light-headed
ചെെതന്യമില്ലാത്ത, കാലുറയ്ക്കാത്ത, ചാഞ്ചാടുന്ന, ലക്കില്ലാത്ത അവസ്ഥയിലായ, വേച്ചുവേച്ചുനടക്കുന്ന, മദ്യമത്തുപിടിച്ച
fuzzy, blurred, blurry
മങ്ങിയ, വ്യക്തതയില്ലാത്ത, അവ്യക്തമായ, ഏകത്രകേന്ദ്രീകരിക്കപ്പെടാത്ത, ഛായാത്മകമായ, വെെശദ്യം കുറവായ

Synonyms of muzzy

All synonyms of muzzy

Forms of muzzy

Adjective
comparativemuzzier
superlativemuzziest
Noun
pluralmuzzies
alternative formMuzzie
alternative formmuzzie
alternative formMuzzy
Proper noun
pluralMuzzys

Origin of muzzy

Clipping of moustache + -y (diminutive suffix).

Words formed from muzzy

Questions about muzzy

What does muzzy mean?
Muzzy means blurred, hazy, indistinct, unfocussed.
What is muzzy in Tamil?
Muzzy in Tamil is மந்தமான, எழுச்சியற்ற. See Muzzy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is muzzy?
Muzzy can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near muzzy in the dictionary

  1. muzzlings
  2. muzzock
  3. muzzocks
  4. Muzzubee
  5. Muzzubees
  6. muzzy
  7. Muzzys
  8. Muñoz
  9. Muñoz East
  10. Muñoz West
  11. Muğla

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: muzzy (page history and authors); Muzzy (page history and authors); muzzy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); muzzy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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