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tozy

tozy adjective: slightly intoxicated; tipsy.

Adjective

tozy (comparative more tozy, superlative most tozy)

  1. (obsolete, possibly) Slightly intoxicated; tipsy.
    • The Magistrates there came into prison, and said, This day you are all to die, and if any of you will undertake to be executioner to the rest, he shall have his life […] The Magistrates gave him Drink and kept him tozy until the murder was over.1727, P. Walker, R. Cameron in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) I, 278
    • What puir man, whan he's tozy, But spends as he ware bein and cozy?1794, Poems Eng., Sc., & Lat., 95

Forms of tozy

comparativemore tozy
superlativemost tozy
alternative formtosie
alternative formtosy

Origin of tozy

Unclear. Various dictionaries mention an old dialectal word tozy, tosy meaning "cosy, cozy", which may be from toze, tose + -y, but it is not clear if this is related to the "intoxicated" sense.

Questions about tozy

What does tozy mean?
Tozy means slightly intoxicated; tipsy.
What part of speech is tozy?
Tozy is an adjective.

Words near tozy in the dictionary

  1. Tozier
  2. Toziers
  3. tozilizumab
  4. tozinameran
  5. tozing
  6. tozy
  7. tozy-mozy
  8. Tozzo
  9. Tołkacze
  10. tp
  11. TP'd

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