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Dizzy vs Doozy - What's the difference?

dizzy | doozy |

As adjectives the difference between dizzy and doozy

is that dizzy is having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded while doozy is (slang|dated) of high quality; remarkable; excellent.

As a verb dizzy

is to make dizzy, to bewilder.

As a noun doozy is

(us) something that is extraordinary often used in the context of troublesome, difficult or problematic, but can be used positively as well.

dizzy

English

Alternative forms

* dizzie (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.
    • I stood up too fast and felt dizzy .
  • * Drayton
    • Alas! his brain was dizzy .
  • Producing giddiness.
    • We climbed to a dizzy height.
  • * Macaulay
    • To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
    • ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.
  • empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous
    • My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
  • * Milton
    • the dizzy multitude

    Derived terms

    * dizzily * dizziness * dizzyingly

    Verb

  • To make dizzy, to bewilder.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:
    • Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Dominic Fifield, work=The Guardian
    • , title= England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova , passage=So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. The contest did not extend beyond the half-hour mark.}}

    doozy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * doozie * duesy

    Noun

    (doozies)
  • (US) something that is extraordinary. Often used in the context of troublesome, difficult or problematic, but can be used positively as well.
    • Most of the test was easy, but the last question was a doozy .

    Synonyms

    * lulu

    Adjective

    (en-adjective)
  • (slang, dated) Of high quality; remarkable; excellent.
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  • (slang, US, archaic) Sporty, ostentatious, flashy.
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    • References

    * * "Doozy" in J.E. Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang volume 1, 1994.