dozy

[ UK /dˈə‍ʊzi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. half asleep
    the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair
    made drowsy by the long ride
    a tired dozy child
    it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor
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How To Use dozy In A Sentence

  • The Government for a start, which is commissioning research into dozy citizenship.
  • She almost hit the sheets again in her dozy stupor, but then Julia bounded in, hopping with the energy you'd expect from a hyper seven-year old.
  • Often he would be apathetic and dozy, particularly for the first hour after he had left Beckton, but then he would start to perk up, speaking intelligently and coherently and showing curiosity about the world around him. Henry’s Demons
  • The contradiction in this case is that Gilligan's bombshell was initially reported in such a dozy, unsensational manner, with all those ‘erms’ and the infamous ‘probably’.
  • Future historians sifting through the cinematic detritus of the last 100 years might find themselves wondering whether some dozy assistant had mislabelled the reels for the early 21st century. The Artist and the rise of retrovision
  • I too have been plagued by unusually warm weather and a "dozy" young driver but she got our mailbox instead of my car, so it wasn't too bad. Gone to.....
  • Actually, what she means is that she thinks I'm a sucker for a prolonged cuddle in my dozy state.
  • So one night's jet-lagged sleep, and one day's dozy practice, and at Ballymore on 12 May they were beaten by Queensland by 15-11, after which the Queensland coach and former Wallaby international, Des Connor, contemptuously pronounced the certainty: "These Lions are hopeless; they are undoubtedly the worst team ever to be sent to New Zealand". Des Connor's 1971 Lions-bait remains absolutely priceless | Frank Keating
  • And there she remained, moaning quietly, until late the following morning when her dozy brood managed to stagger out of bed to ask what was for breakfast.
  • Halfway through I felt dozy, so I hit the drive-through at Starbucks.
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