fozy
Americanadjective
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spongy; loose-textured.
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(of a vegetable or fruit) overripe.
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(of a person) fat; flabby.
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Informal. dull-witted; stupid; fatheaded.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of fozy
1815–25; compare Dutch voos spongy, Low German fussig
Example Sentences
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The language is out of condition:—fat and fozy, thick-winded, purfled and plethoric.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
She seemed To have the fondy flummoxed, till his wits Were fozy as a frosted swede.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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 Neil Munro
Three fozy, foggy brothers—what did the armies do for them?
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
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