[
UK
/dˈəʊzi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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half asleep
the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair
made drowsy by the long ride
a tired dozy child
it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor
How To Use dozy In A Sentence
- Divers even pick up these dozy little sharks, but if you do that you will find yourself with a suddenly alert fish that is probably a bit narked at being disturbed.
- The audience listened intently, strolled among the plants, watched the dozy fish, sipped tea, snoozed, read books: it was quite magical.
- And that one sloppy, dozy, cosy thing leads tragically to another. Murdoch could let the News of the World rise again
- I went on to eat a light breakfast and to get my morning writing session done, then felt decidedly dozy.
- Note also that Adams is so dozy as to include in his blitzkrieg on the overuse of ‘basically’ a sentence that commits precisely the same sort of lexical naughtiness. “Attacks” on the language are greatly misunderstood
- After a few dozy miles, road-roar broke the peace.
- The house seemed to be full of dozy, half-dead insects trying to get in from the cold. LOST CHILDREN
- If the dozy mare who sits in the booth by the ticket barrier looked up from reading her Metro occasionally, like when yet another teenager is escaping through the luggage gate without paying, we wouldn't need half as many cameras.
- I'm feeling a bit dozy this afternoon.
- But there will be plenty of lighter fare for dozy afternoons.