Re: Wuz

--- 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'.


Torsten