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Definition of dozy in English: dozyadjectivedoziest, dozier ˈdəʊziˈdoʊzi 1Feeling drowsy and lazy. 想睡的,昏昏欲睡的 he grew dozy at the end of a long day 在经历了漫长的一天后,他感到昏昏欲睡。 Example sentencesExamples - But there will be plenty of lighter fare for dozy afternoons.
- Some motorway blackspots are known as ‘the sleepy corridor’ and ‘the nod-off zone’ by traffic police who have to clear up the carnage caused by dozy drivers.
- I don't recall all that much about the climb - we were dozy with sleep, midges feasted off us and rain and low cloud completely obscured the views.
- A Brain scientist has teamed up with electronics wizards to design a system for giving dozy drivers a wake-up call.
- With Graham off in Wales, searching out estate and letting agents and looking at house details, Harry and Dolly and I have had a completely shameless, dozy day.
- 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.
- Then the sun fell asleep beneath a rug of dozy cloud.
- So, perhaps staying up so late last night to get the tax done wasn't such a good idea after all, as it left me dozy all day today - the last day of the issue when there were more pages to read then ever.
- I said there was no point, I was on morphine, drugged up and dozy in the hospital.
- The audience listened intently, strolled among the plants, watched the dozy fish, sipped tea, snoozed, read books: it was quite magical.
- I've given her a light sedative, she'll be dozy and will hopefully sleep through the night
- After a few dozy miles, road-roar broke the peace.
- A normally terminally dozy island, it has a buzz about it.
- Life proceeds at a dozy Caribbean pace: an occasional dog, dozing, will cock an eyebrow as you go by, then let out a long breath and doze off again.
- Despite what one would think even though Jamie was so incredibly sleepy, sluggish, drowsy, and dozy, he didn't seem to mind.
- If I were working in an office today, I'd be full of good intentions and dozy distraction.
- Now you're ready for some dozy, late-afternoon slacking.
- Halfway through I felt dozy, so I hit the drive-through at Starbucks.
- It's not a particularly desirable place now unless you really want to hide-away in dozy and thoroughly low-key French Caribbean style.
- 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.
Synonyms drowsy, sleepy, half asleep, heavy-eyed, somnolent lethargic, listless, lacking in energy, unenergetic, enervated, inactive, slow, torpid, languid, weary, tired, fatigued lazy, idle, indolent, slothful, sluggardly Medicine asthenic, neurasthenic informal dopey, yawny North American informal logy archaic lymphatic - 1.1British informal Sluggish and not alert; stupid.
〈英,非正式〉迟缓的,呆滞的,反应迟钝的;笨的 at breakfast, a dozy waitress brings the wrong things 进早餐时,一个糊涂的女招待上错了菜。 Example sentencesExamples - If the dozy mare who sits in the booth by the ticket barrier looked up from reading her Metro occasionally, like when yet another teenager is escaping through the luggage gate without paying, we wouldn't need half as many cameras.
- All in all it was a fraught weekend and a salutary lesson always to keep your dog on the lead for its own protection against ‘trained’ attack dogs and their dozy owners.
- The dozy pair believed her - and ran off empty-handed.
- The dozy woman had screwed the network card to the back panel on the PC but didn't plug it into the motherboard as she said she had.
- The press, dozy as ever, would have missed the story en masse.
Synonyms stupid, slow, dim-witted, dull-witted, ignorant, unintelligent, imperceptive, half-baked, vacuous, mindless, witless, obtuse, doltish, blockish, lumpish, wooden
Derivativesadverb Emerging from his bed the next morning, Aida walked dozily as he headed down the stairs to breakfast. Example sentencesExamples - When the car stopped, she jerked awake and peered around dozily.
- Megan sighed and replied dozily, ‘I'll just wake up early in the morning and finish both our work.’
- I slept only fitfully until about 4am, then solidly until 7, then dozily until after 8.
- I mumbled as I looked dozily up at my homeroom teacher's desk.
noun ˈdəʊzɪnəsˈdoʊzinəs Further study might usefully consider a correlation between the constant sending of pesky emails and doziness, lethargy and the inability to focus. Example sentencesExamples - The lesson has been generally learnt, but with varying doses of vitality for some and doziness for others.
- I was to be found reclining, carefree and contentment itself, clutching a filigree glass of the finest port and allowing the soothing tones to lull me into doziness.
- This afternoon, for instance, I was slouching here on my futon when I felt more than the doziness that I've had all day, an actual feeling that I could very well go to sleep now.
- ‘We have kids,’ I replied, stupid through doziness.
Rhymescosy (US cozy), Josie, mafiosi, mosey, nosy, posey, posy, prosy, Rosie, rosy Definition of dozy in US English: dozyadjectiveˈdoʊziˈdōzē Drowsy and lazy. he grew dozy at the end of a long day 在经历了漫长的一天后,他感到昏昏欲睡。 Example sentencesExamples - After a few dozy miles, road-roar broke the peace.
- It's not a particularly desirable place now unless you really want to hide-away in dozy and thoroughly low-key French Caribbean style.
- I've given her a light sedative, she'll be dozy and will hopefully sleep through the night
- Some motorway blackspots are known as ‘the sleepy corridor’ and ‘the nod-off zone’ by traffic police who have to clear up the carnage caused by dozy drivers.
- Despite what one would think even though Jamie was so incredibly sleepy, sluggish, drowsy, and dozy, he didn't seem to mind.
- The audience listened intently, strolled among the plants, watched the dozy fish, sipped tea, snoozed, read books: it was quite magical.
- 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.
- But there will be plenty of lighter fare for dozy afternoons.
- I said there was no point, I was on morphine, drugged up and dozy in the hospital.
- Then the sun fell asleep beneath a rug of dozy cloud.
- If I were working in an office today, I'd be full of good intentions and dozy distraction.
- Halfway through I felt dozy, so I hit the drive-through at Starbucks.
- Life proceeds at a dozy Caribbean pace: an occasional dog, dozing, will cock an eyebrow as you go by, then let out a long breath and doze off again.
- A Brain scientist has teamed up with electronics wizards to design a system for giving dozy drivers a wake-up call.
- So, perhaps staying up so late last night to get the tax done wasn't such a good idea after all, as it left me dozy all day today - the last day of the issue when there were more pages to read then ever.
- 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.
- A normally terminally dozy island, it has a buzz about it.
- With Graham off in Wales, searching out estate and letting agents and looking at house details, Harry and Dolly and I have had a completely shameless, dozy day.
- I don't recall all that much about the climb - we were dozy with sleep, midges feasted off us and rain and low cloud completely obscured the views.
- Now you're ready for some dozy, late-afternoon slacking.
Synonyms drowsy, sleepy, half asleep, heavy-eyed, somnolent |