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doozy, a. and n. slang (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.).|ˈduːzɪ|
Also doozie.
[Of uncertain origin: perh. var. of daisy n. 5. See also *doozer n.]
A. adj. Remarkable, excellent; also, amazing, incredible.
1903A. Kleberg Slang Fables from Afar 83 As soon as the races were billed he began to evolve schemes—one doozy scheme followed the other. 1911Dialect Notes III. 543 Doozy,..sporty or flossy. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §29/4 Doozy. 1975Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 Nov. 59/8 Swingers Saturday Night was doozy.
B. n. Something remarkable, amazing, or unbelievable. Freq. iron.
1916Dialect Notes IV. 274 Dozy, term of praise. ‘Isn't that fish a dozy?’ 1959‘R. Macdonald’ Galton Case vii. 53, I married him—the big mistake of my life, and I've made some doozies. 1961K. Vonnegut in Mag. of Fantasy & Sci. Fiction XXI. iv. 6/2 ‘Boy!’ said Hazel, ‘that was a doozy, wasn't it?’ 1975New Yorker 28 Apr. 44/2 His elder daughter arrives in a doozie of a snowstorm. 1988Times 7 Oct. 11 Mr Bentsen was..sharply questioned about his short-lived proposal... He admitted the scheme was ‘a real doozy’. |