mozy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Tough, as fruit when frostbitten.
verb
Alternative spelling of mosey.
Example Sentences
- "The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands."
- "Mozy, adj., ...also, as applied to meat, fruit, &c., tainted, musty, beginning to decay."
- "A calf whose skin is of a dirty grey colour is said to have a mozy look."
- "Mozy [moa-zi], adj. juiceless, tough, as apples, pears, turnips, &c., are when frostbitten."
- "Mozy, adj., ' muggy,' as applied to weather, warm and damp ;"
- "And does the gastric unpleasantness still linger around the cardiac end, or has it migrated to the pylorus, and in doing so, did it seem to mozy along the lesser or greater stomachal curvature?"