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wooz⋅y

  [woo-zee, wooz-ee]
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–adjective, wooz⋅i⋅er, wooz⋅i⋅est.
1. stupidly confused; muddled: woozy from a blow on the head.
2. physically out of sorts, as with dizziness, faintness, or slight nausea: He felt woozy after the flu.
3. drunken.
Origin:
1895–1900, Americanism; perh. short for boozy-woozy, rhyming compound based on boozy

Related forms:
wooz⋅i⋅ly, adverb
wooz⋅i⋅ness, noun
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wooz·y   (wōō'zē, wŏŏz'ē)   
adj.   wooz·i·er, wooz·i·est

  1. Dazed or confused.

  2. Dizzy or queasy.


[Possibly from alteration of boozy, drunken, from booze.]
wooz'i·ly adv., wooz'i·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
woozy [ˈwuzi]

  1. mod.
    sleepy; disoriented. : I'm still sort of woozy. Give me a minute or two to wake up.
  2. mod.
    alcohol intoxicated. : I felt a little woozy, but that didn't stop me from having more.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

woozy 
1897, "muddled or dazed, as with drink," Amer.Eng. colloq., variant of oozy "muddy," or an alteration of boozy (1719), from booze.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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