I love polysemity. There is of course that wonderful scene in The Wire
in which every word is "fuck".
xA
From Alison's iPhone
On 28/01/2010, at 11:20 PM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Some words just have too many faces, hey, Max. But in the context, I
> knew
> what Alison meant. It's all about context, as my supervisor used to
> say >g<
>
> Andrew
>
> 2010/1/28 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Quoting Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>>> But I did enjoy seeing the places John went (I
>>> was off in other places) and I thought his was a doozy.
>>
>> Looked up doozy in Urban Dictionary online: helpful? asks Max...
>>
>> 1. doozy
>> something that is difficult or daunting
>> man that history exam was a doozy! i think i failed
>> 2. doozy
>>
>> Something extraordinary or bizarre. Etymology: perhaps alteration
>> of daisy,
>> and
>> Duesenberg, a luxury car of the late 1920s and 1930s. It's an English
>> expression.
>> "That footballer's form is a doozy!",
>> "Man, that one was a real doozy!"
>>
>> 3. Doozy
>>
>> Puts emphasis and significance on a certain thing, can be used in
>> almost
>> any
>> circumstance for anything.
>> wow what a goal, that was a doozy
>>
>> that was a doozy of a meal Mrs. Smith
>>
>> that girl has a doozy of a rack
>>
>>
>> 4. doozy
>>
>> something outstanding
>> Yo, don't sweat it.
>> You'll be fine.
>>
>> Yo doozy, baby.
>> outstanding excellent marvelous magnificent superb sensational
>> fantastic
>> awesome wonderful fabulous
>>
>> 5. doozy
>>
>> someone that mean anything, a word that can be used anywhere at
>> anytime,
>> like
>> how in uno you have a wild card that can be any color well DOOZY is
>> a wild
>> word
>> it can mean anything.
>> Yo i got a mean Doozy!
>>
>> That girl is a Doozy!
>>
>>
>> 6. doozy
>>
>> A night filled with excessive drinking to the point that events of
>> the said
>> night are hazy and cannot be completely recalled. There are varying
>> degrees
>> of
>> "doozy", the most common being a night filled with drunken hilarity
>> that
>> for the
>> most part is only recalled by those who did not get too drunk, or
>> partake
>> in the
>> "doozy". A person who has a doozy usually wakes up the next morning
>> wondering
>> where he/she is, often times confused about the events of the night
>> before.
>>
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