fozy

comparative more fozy · superlative most fozy

1. Scotlandspongy; soft; fat and puffy

   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

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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

   In years when grain was raw and light, So fozy it would scarcely dight, I look'd around me, left and right, ⁠As sharp's a razor, Till I got some unskilful wight ⁠To buy by measure.

   1847, Scoundrel Will's advice to his sons