Adjective: fozy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fozy |
| Superlative | most fozy |
Sample Sentences
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He maun be a saft sap, wi' a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip—it wad hae ta'en a hantle o' them to scaur Andrew Fairservice out o' his tale. [1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 16:]
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In years when grain was raw and light,
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So fozy it would scarcely dight,
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I look'd around me, left and right,
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As sharp's a razor,
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Till I got some unskilful wight
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To buy by measure. [1847, Scoundrel Will's advice to his sons:]
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Just a plain, stout, fozy, sappy burrow-man, keeping a gospel shop, with scarcely so much of a man's parts as will let him fend a blow in the face. [c. 1900, Neil Munro, John Splendid:]
Adjectives inflected like fozy
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology