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  • Another possibility is that Mike was just kind of dozey when he regained consciousness and left his Magic Chick Magnet Hat lying on the ground.

    Mike’s chick magnet hat « knitnut.net 2006

  • Though it has it's own starch, I still like to have it with a bit of crusty bread, as well as a glass of fino sherry (or fizzy water, if I don't want to get dozey.)

    Toast: Lindy 2005

  • Though it has it's own starch, I still like to have it with a bit of crusty bread, as well as a glass of fino sherry (or fizzy water, if I don't want to get dozey.)

    Pantry Supper : Rice Salad from Cordoba Lindy 2005

  • Methinks you need to be as bold as I: Next time it happens, tell the dozey cow to go check it at another till!

    monop’ 2005

  • He was prepared now, but always a bit dozey from antihistamines.

    Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • Altogether, I have never, on any occasion, made one at such a cosey, dozey, old-fashioned, time-forgotten, sleepy-headed little family-party in all my life; and I felt it would be quite a soothing opiate to belong to it in any character—except perhaps as a suitor.

    XXIII. I Corroborate Mr. Dick and Choose a Profession 1917

  • "Oh, I say," cried Mark, "did you ever see such an old dozey, doctor?"

    Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain George Manville Fenn 1870

  • He was unjustly sacked, but we the fans gave him all the time he needed and its our dozey owner who got rid.

    BBC Ouch! Blog BBC Sport 2011

  • My son worked for a builder before he left school, was not provided with boots 'as it was clean work' trod on a nail and was dropped off about a mile from home with his trainer full of blood, or on another occasion my dozey relation said he wanted a young lad to get into a loft, when my son crawled in he was faced with the biggest wasp nest in the world!

    London SE1 community website Jan the old one 2010

  • My son worked for a builder before he left school, was not provided with boots 'as it was clean work' trod on a nail and was dropped off about a mile from home with his trainer full of blood, or on another occasion my dozey relation said he wanted a young lad to get into a loft, when my son crawled in he was faced with the biggest wasp nest in the world!

    London SE1 community website Jan the old one 2010

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