Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Scot. Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.
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- adjective Scotland
spongy ;soft ;fat andpuffy
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Examples
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Three fozy, foggy brothers -- what did the armies do for them?
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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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.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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The language is out of condition: -- fat and fozy, thick-winded, purfled and plethoric.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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He maun be a saft sap, wi 'a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip --- it wad hae ta'en a hantle o' them to scaur Andrew
Rob Roy 1887
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Archie Gordon takin til himsel sic a wife! that a man like him, o 'guid report, and come to years o' discretion -- to think o 'brains like his turnin as fozy as an auld neep at sicht o' a bonny front til an ae wa 'hoose (_a house of but one wall_)!
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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He maun be a saft sap, wi’ a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip — it wad hae ta’en a hantle o’ them to scaur Andrew Fairservice out
Rob Roy 2005
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He maun be a saft sap, wi 'a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip -- it wad hae ta'en a hantle o' them to scaur Andrew Fairservice out o 'his tale. "
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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He maun be a saft sap, wi 'a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip -- it wad hae ta'en a hantle o' them to scaur Andrew Fairservice out o 'his tale. "
Rob Roy — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
reesetee commented on the word fozy
Spongy, loose-textured; also of flesh. Figuratively, it can mean fat-witted; hence foziness.
February 12, 2008
qms commented on the word fozy
Since she is a baker and so's he
The dough balls they start with are fozy.
When the kneading is done
And the rising begun
They nestle together quite cozy.
June 7, 2016