What's the difference between dozy and oozy?

Dozy


Definition:

  • (a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) England will not delude themselves that this match, and with it the series, was lost because of a single piece of sharp practice by Sachithra Senanayake – or even, if they take a more self-critical approach, one moment of doziness from Jos Buttler and a separate breakdown in communication between the wicketkeeper and Chris Jordan.
  • (2) Even economists weren’t dozy enough to miss that the fact that the same pound paid for Britain’s imports, meaning that after devaluation it bought fewer goods, and therefore domestic prices would go up.
  • (3) Peculatities of background electrical activity of some projection regions, the I somatosensory (field 53), and I and II auditory (fields 22 and 52, respectively), visual (field 17) and associative cortex (field 5), were studied in chronic experiments, performed on unanesthetized dozy cats.
  • (4) This isn't the dozy, middle-aged PBS that Seiken shocked into YouTube action.
  • (5) For those who believe in the survival of the fittest, the only surprise was that this apparently lumbering, dozy and sexually inadequate species had clung on for so long.
  • (6) "It is excellent that the OFT has announced this investigation – at last, dozy officialdom is waking up to the abuses in leasehold, ranging from small-scale Rackmans to huge corporate players.
  • (7) They are charming and decorative and have fulfilled my hopes that they would prove more lively and adventurous than my two dozy, stick-in-the-mud, non-laying Marans hens.
  • (8) My grandmother gave him hell when we got back because I was still dozy.
  • (9) It is an island without law.” **** Dozy had not set out to find gold in 1936; his goal was to scale the region’s highest glacial peak.
  • (10) We need to invest in ensuring that data [will] be there for everybody to use.” Poor monitoring renders millions of elderly people worldwide 'invisible' Read more Speaking last month at the first Africa open data conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dozie Ezigbalike, chief of the data technology section at the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa, said giving people access to information would allow them to hold their governments to account.
  • (11) Still dozy, clutching her sheets and blankets, they would head for the cold stairwell.
  • (12) But Lescott soon made up for that by exploiting equally dozy defending by Southampton , guiding the ball into the net from close range after a corner by Veretout.
  • (13) Everton 1-2 Swansea City: Premier League – as it happened Read more Even so it was a surprise when they took an early lead through some unforgivably dozy home defending.
  • (14) During the 4,800-metre ascent, Dozy noticed an unusual rock outcrop veined with green streaks.
  • (15) The department of health was dozy, with Frank Dobson and then David Blunkett in charge.” A senior civil servant, now retired, who worked in the department for transport but asked not to be named, said that cost-benefit studies of a switch to diesel were done by government but climate change was “the new kid on the block” and long-term projections of comparative technologies were not perfect.
  • (16) The front, for example, is a twee, unnecessary Nigel Waymouth photo of Drake the Homely Folkie sitting moon-faced and dozy-eyed pouring over a Spanish guitar and fronted by a pair of “bumper”-styled brothel-creepers.
  • (17) And it really does not work with dozy policymakers.
  • (18) A lack of segregation, caused by the Football Association of Ireland reselling tickets in English sections to Irish fans, and a security operation that was not just complacent but outright dozy, did not help either.
  • (19) In 1936, Dutch geologist Jean Jacques Dozy climbed the world’s highest island peak: the forbidding Mount Carstensz, a snow-covered silver crag on what was then known as Dutch New Guinea.
  • (20) Next, Daniel Libeskind proposed the Spiral , a large, jagged, teetering addition to the V&A whose aim seemed to be to startle Exhibition Road out of its doziness.

Oozy


Definition:

  • (a.) Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river.

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