mazy
/ˈmeɪzi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not straight; zigzagging.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]"
- "Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue."
- "England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out."
- "I am a fool—a purblind, mazy fool, And do not know my right hand from my left."
Etymology
Etymology tree English maze Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English mazy From maze + -y.