Re: [tied] Re: Wuz

At 8:21:53 AM on Thursday, July 15, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 7:59:54 AM on Thursday, July 15, 2004, tgpedersen
>> wrote:

>>> And which are your sources?

>> OED: U.S. slang, 'fuddled with drink; hence, muzzy,
>> "dotty"'.

> And to back up that, they provide three quotes:

> 1897 'In the woozy lexicon of the church thre is no such word as
> power'
> 1900? 'A woman gets woozy on clothes'
> 1927 'The man was mad. Well, he was a bit woozy'

> of which the third could be interpreted to mean 'drunk'.

Yes, I know. Unlike you, I'm willing to assume tentatively
that they had a reason for the definition as given, even if
it isn't evident from their choice of quotations.

Brian