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单词 doozy
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Definition of doozy in English:

doozy

(also doozie)
nounPlural doozies ˈduːziˈdo͞ozē
North American informal
  • Something outstanding or unique of its kind.

    it's gonna be a doozy of a black eye
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And those doozies are just a couple of things that have been left out of or fudged in a single document.
    • It's what I like to call the ‘corporate rubber chicken circuit’, and I've been fortunate enough in my line of work to have attended a few doozies over the past decade.
    • Not that her failure to do so in any way excuses what sounds like a doozy of a temper tantrum on her part.
    • Anyway, as I was on the way to work this morning, he was receiving calls from his listeners about various topics - and one lovely bloke rang up with the following doozy of a comment.
    • I'm back from my road trip, and as soon as I get my photos developed I'll have some doozies.
    • And, when it does, the man can expect to have to answer for some real doozies.
    • He only made one foray into the horror genre, but it's a doozy.
    • But there's a doozy of a story about how the car was found.
    • At any rate, this one's a doozy, and I am going to go so far as to type up the first section to entice you all to buy it.
    • What I didn't count on was that while we settled into our grown-up middle aged persona, the right wing was going to have a doozy of a mid-life crisis and hurl themselves into true radicalism.
    • I mean, this is really going to be a doozy in terms of these types of cases.
    • The passacaille that concludes this opera is a doozie, lasting for most of the final scene, and involving two bass patterns in alternation, one descending and one ascending.
    • It's a doozy - starts by dropping in over roots, onto a series of downed iron fences, followed by a slightly off camber log hop and then you're heading downhill.
    • Be sure to check back tomorrow, though, coz that one's gonna be a doozy.
    • I can't find the exact quote anywhere yet, but it was a doozy.
    • But his next step will clearly be a doozy.
    • Nonetheless, it gives us closure on a doozy of a story, one with innumerable subplots and shades.
    • But the other tile-laying design of that year was a doozy.
    • And we have very, very identical personalities, two Scorpios, and I'm telling you, some of the arguments were really doozies.
    • If I ever do manage a real entry today it will be a doozie.

Origin

Early 20th century: of unknown origin.

Rhymes

bluesy, boozy, choosy, floozie, jacuzzi, medusae, newsy, oozy, Pusey, snoozy, Susie, Uzi, woozy
 
 

Definition of doozy in US English:

doozy

(also doozie)
nounˈdo͞ozē
North American informal
  • Something outstanding or unique of its kind.

    it's gonna be a doozy of a black eye
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's what I like to call the ‘corporate rubber chicken circuit’, and I've been fortunate enough in my line of work to have attended a few doozies over the past decade.
    • He only made one foray into the horror genre, but it's a doozy.
    • If I ever do manage a real entry today it will be a doozie.
    • And we have very, very identical personalities, two Scorpios, and I'm telling you, some of the arguments were really doozies.
    • And, when it does, the man can expect to have to answer for some real doozies.
    • What I didn't count on was that while we settled into our grown-up middle aged persona, the right wing was going to have a doozy of a mid-life crisis and hurl themselves into true radicalism.
    • I'm back from my road trip, and as soon as I get my photos developed I'll have some doozies.
    • I can't find the exact quote anywhere yet, but it was a doozy.
    • Anyway, as I was on the way to work this morning, he was receiving calls from his listeners about various topics - and one lovely bloke rang up with the following doozy of a comment.
    • But the other tile-laying design of that year was a doozy.
    • But his next step will clearly be a doozy.
    • But there's a doozy of a story about how the car was found.
    • The passacaille that concludes this opera is a doozie, lasting for most of the final scene, and involving two bass patterns in alternation, one descending and one ascending.
    • I mean, this is really going to be a doozy in terms of these types of cases.
    • Nonetheless, it gives us closure on a doozy of a story, one with innumerable subplots and shades.
    • It's a doozy - starts by dropping in over roots, onto a series of downed iron fences, followed by a slightly off camber log hop and then you're heading downhill.
    • And those doozies are just a couple of things that have been left out of or fudged in a single document.
    • Be sure to check back tomorrow, though, coz that one's gonna be a doozy.
    • Not that her failure to do so in any way excuses what sounds like a doozy of a temper tantrum on her part.
    • At any rate, this one's a doozy, and I am going to go so far as to type up the first section to entice you all to buy it.

Origin

Early 20th century: of unknown origin.

 
 
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