muzzy

comparative muzzier · superlative muzziest

1. Northern EnglanddialectalBlurred, hazy, indistinct, unfocussed.

   The Handel excerpts are afflicted with a combination of high surface noise from the source material as well as variably muzzy sound.

   1979, Journal - Association for Recorded Sound Collections

   Synonyms: indistinct

2. Bewildered; dazed.

   Synonyms: confused

3. Tipsy; drunk; involving drunkenness.

   To the muzzy drumming of beer in his veins he gazed long and owlishly at the sombre cottage[.]

   1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 112

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   Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.

   1770, Samuel Foote, The Lame Lover, a Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: […] Paul Vaillant; and sold by P[eter] Elmsly […]; and Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 12

   The front bar was plying trade too, by customers that kept oozing in through the back door. The fat publican served whoever came, muzzy with the succession of pots that stodged away his day.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 159

   Synonyms: buzzed

plural muzzies · alternative Muzzie · alternative muzzie · alternative Muzzy

1. offensiveslangA Muslim.

   "Ethiopia is a fortress of Christianity surrounded by Muzzies," said Tesfaye. His description paraphrased the words of Emperor Menelik II

   1999, Julia Stewart, Eccentric Graces: Eritrea & Ethiopia Through the Eyes of a Traveler, page 138

plural muzzies

1. Liverpool; Manchester; Liverpool; Manchestermoustache

plural Muzzys

1. A surname.