Meaning of doozy in English:
doozy
See synonyms for doozy on Thesaurus.comnounplural noun doozies
(also doozie)
informal mainly North American Something outstanding or unique of its kind.
- ‘it's gonna be a doozy of a black eye’
- ‘Be sure to check back tomorrow, though, coz that one's gonna be a doozy.’
- ‘Not that her failure to do so in any way excuses what sounds like a doozy of a temper tantrum on her part.’
- ‘But there's a doozy of a story about how the car was found.’
- ‘At any rate, this one's a doozy, and I am going to go so far as to type up the first section to entice you all to buy it.’
- ‘I can't find the exact quote anywhere yet, but it was a doozy.’
- ‘I mean, this is really going to be a doozy in terms of these types of cases.’
- ‘I'm back from my road trip, and as soon as I get my photos developed I'll have some doozies.’
- ‘It's what I like to call the ‘corporate rubber chicken circuit’, and I've been fortunate enough in my line of work to have attended a few doozies over the past decade.’
- ‘And we have very, very identical personalities, two Scorpios, and I'm telling you, some of the arguments were really doozies.’
- ‘And, when it does, the man can expect to have to answer for some real doozies.’
- ‘And those doozies are just a couple of things that have been left out of or fudged in a single document.’
- ‘The passacaille that concludes this opera is a doozie, lasting for most of the final scene, and involving two bass patterns in alternation, one descending and one ascending.’
- ‘If I ever do manage a real entry today it will be a doozie.’
- ‘He only made one foray into the horror genre, but it's a doozy.’
- ‘But his next step will clearly be a doozy.’
- ‘It's a doozy - starts by dropping in over roots, onto a series of downed iron fences, followed by a slightly off camber log hop and then you're heading downhill.’
- ‘Anyway, as I was on the way to work this morning, he was receiving calls from his listeners about various topics - and one lovely bloke rang up with the following doozy of a comment.’
- ‘Nonetheless, it gives us closure on a doozy of a story, one with innumerable subplots and shades.’
- ‘But the other tile-laying design of that year was a doozy.’
Origin
Early 20th century of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of daisy.
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