‘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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