doozy
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈduːzi/
- Informal
:
una cosa tremenda (informal)
- My day was a doozy.
- a real doozy
- a doozy of a storm
- a doozy of a day
This next one's a doozy, so buckle up, OK?
- This next one's a doozy, so buckle up, OK?
- This month, man, this month is a doozy.
- Oh yes, yes yes, this one's going to be a doozy.
- That long poem is a doozy.
- Listen, Give India, you are picking some doozies on this weekend edition of the Ask Gary Vee Show.
- But I recently heard a doozy.
- So like I don't blame them and I get why they're doing it, but that's a that's a doozy.
Examples
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There is an idea inside that head of yours, and it's a doozy.
Fiction book (2001) -
I got a feeling whatever bug Eva's chasing, it must be a doozy.
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It's quite a doozy today.
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My first year in Florida was 2005, which was a doozy of a year to move down there.
Blog text (22) -
The challenge is a doozy this week, and I knew it would be time-consuming.
Blog text (12) -
We got ourselves a doozy of a game today, the Sarsaparilla slide.
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"I mean," he said, "some of these were real doozies."
Fiction book (2001) -
And the real doozy: Did he imperil national security to protect his political aspirations?
Blog text (25) -
What a doozy, huh?
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The fall of Houston businesswoman Teresa Rodriguez is a doozy, even by Texas standards.
Synonyms
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8.6
A person or thing that is very good and impressive
Compounds
How Remarkable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Doozy probably comes from the older word daisy, which once meant 'something excellent', or from the fancy car Duesenberg, which people thought was 'very impressive'. So a doozy is something unusually impressive or hard to deal with.