wuzzyadj.
/ˈwʌzi/ colloquial.
Confused, fuddled, vague. Cf. woozy adj., muzzy adj.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > scatter-brained
madbraina1560
mad-headeda1566
mad-braineda1577
madcap1591
shatter-headedc1686
shatter-brained1727
shatter-witted1775
scatter-brained1804
skivie1808
wuzzy1896
shatter-pated1901
scatty1911
twitterpated1943
1896 Dial. Notes 1 427 Wuzzy,..confused.
1921 E. A. J. B. Lytton Let. 10 Mar. in Ld. Lytton Antony (1935) iii. 74 I am very nearly mad, I am quite slowly turning wuzzy.
1924 I. A. R. Wyllie in Sunday Times 3 Feb. 7/3 Miss Sinclair is not for ‘wuzzy’ minds.
1937 J. B. Priestley Two Time Plays 79 I can't remember... I'm—a bit—wuzzy.
Draft additions 1993
ˈwuzzily adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adverb]
confusedly1502
amazedly1561
out1585
perplexedly1587
distractedly1608
muddily1648
confoundedly1672
turbidly1728
puzzledly1870
unclearly1875
muddledly1914
distraughtly1926
wuzzily1964
1964 P. Tamony Americanisms (typescript) No. 3. 6 The vagabond/bohemian of the Nineties was ring-tailed in Radicalism, and his descendant of the Twenties fuzzy-tailed prospecting wuzzily a brotherhood of man in Communism-as-a-cure.
ˈwuzziness n.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun]
mingingOE
riddleOE
cumbermentc1300
willa1325
encumbrancec1330
were1338
perplexitya1393
discomfiturea1425
cumbrancec1460
confuse1483
proplexity1487
perplexion?c1500
amazedness?1520
amazement1553
subversion1558
amaze?1560
perplexednessa1586
confusedness1587
puzzle1599
confusion1600
mizmaze1604
discomfita1616
embarras1627
obfuscation1628
mystery1629
confoundedness1641
puzzledness1662
confuseness1710
puzzlement1731
puzzledom1748
embarrassment1751
puzzleation1767
bepuzzlement1806
conjecture1815
mystification1817
bewilderment1819
perplexment1826
fuddle1827
wilderment1830
discomforture1832
head-scratching1832
baffle1843
posement1850
muddlement1857
turbidity1868
fogging1878
bemuddlement1884
harl1889
befuddlement1905
turbidness1906
wuzziness1942
perplexability1999
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §174/2 Bewilderment; confusion; muddle. Dopiness,..wooziness, wuzziness.
1978 D. Francis Trial Run xii. 163 There was still a pervading wuzziness in the thinking department.
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