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 and puffy

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Examples

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

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

  • 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

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

    Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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  • Spongy, loose-textured; also of flesh. Figuratively, it can mean fat-witted; hence foziness.

    February 12, 2008

  • 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