Dozy vs Doxy - What's the difference?
dozy | doxy |
Quite sleepy or tired.
Intellectually slow.
(carpentry) Decaying, rotten, spongy (wood).
(archaic) A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 328:
(colloquial) A defined opinion.
As an adjective dozy
is quite sleepy or tired.As a noun doxy is
(archaic) a sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress or doxy can be (colloquial) a defined opinion.dozy
English
Adjective
(er)- Jim is a dozy child.
Synonyms
* doty (rotten wood)doxy
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Noun
(doxies)- Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra , a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?
- So then, of course, he paid her in kind...the place is full of his doxies , open a closet at Allington and some wench falls out of it.