fozy

American

[foh-zee, foz-ee] / ˈfoʊ zi, ˈfɒz i /

adjective

Chiefly Scot.

fozier, foziest

spongy; loose-textured.
(of a vegetable or fruit) overripe.
(of a person) fat; flabby.
Informal. dull-witted; stupid; fatheaded.

Other Word Forms

foziness noun

Etymology

Origin of fozy

1815–25; compare Dutch voos spongy, Low German fussig

Example Sentences

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Just a plain, stout, fozy, sappy burrow-man, keeping a gospel shop, with scarcely so much of a man's parts as will let him fend a blow in the face.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

The language is out of condition:—fat and fozy, thick-winded, purfled and plethoric.

From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley

Three fozy, foggy brothers—what did the armies do for them?

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

She seemed To have the fondy flummoxed, till his wits Were fozy as a frosted swede.

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

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