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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