mozy

1. Shaggy; hairy.

   The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands.

   1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the ... - Page 223

2. Musty; starting to decay; tainted.

   Mozy, adj., ...also, as applied to meat, fruit, &c., tainted, musty, beginning to decay.

   1890, John Drummond Robertson, Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester - Page 197

3. Faded; dingy.

   A calf whose skin is of a dirty grey colour is said to have a mozy look.

   1888, Sidney Oldall Addy, A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield - Page 152

4. Tough, as fruit when frostbitten.

   Mozy [moa-zi], adj. juiceless, tough, as apples, pears, turnips, &c., are when frostbitten.

   1887, Thomas Darlington, The Folk-speech of South Cheshire - Page 266

5. archaicMuggy.

   Mozy, adj., ' muggy,' as applied to weather, warm and damp ;

   1890, John Drummond Robertson, Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester - Page 197

present singular third person mozies · participle present mozying · participle past mozied · past mozied

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of mosey.

   Mozy along.

   1938, Zane Grey, Raiders of Spanish Peaks - Page 7

   3 more examples

   And does the gastric unpleasantness still linger around the cardiac end, or has it migrated to the pylorus, and in doing so, did it seem to mozy along the lesser or greater stomachal curvature?

   1906, Texas Medical Association, Texas State Journal of Medicine - Page 9

   ...who drove into a hill town with his ox cart, and they were mozying along the road, and he suddenly came face to face with a new sign he had...

   1919, National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (U.S.) - Marine engineers, Journal of Proceedings of the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial ... - Page 10

   Patina had the baby; Louisa was going off to college to be a pre-med student, and Charlotte just mozied along.

   2005, R. E. Wilburn, Lo, These Many Years - Page 89