[tied] Re: Wuz

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

> 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.
>

I'm willing to assume tentatively that they were not quite sure about
their definition, since it doesn't seem to have made it into the
other OED versions.


Torsten