Muzzy

Definition: Muzzy

Muzzy

Adjective

1. Indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes".

2. Confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Muzzy \Muz"zy\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression muse.]. (references)

Synonyms: Muzzy

Drunkenness

Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk.

Inattention

Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful).

Crosswords: Muzzy

Books

• Miko's Muzzy Mess (Astrokids, 4) (reference)

• Muzzy (reference)

• Muzzy Readers, Set, Series I (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i pirë (drunk, drunken, groggy, high, loaded), i dehur (boozy, crocked, drunk, drunken, elevated, exhilarated, far gone, going far, groggy, inebriate, jagged, lit, oiled, pissed, potted, queer, screwed up, screwy, sozzled, tanked). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشوش الذهن (dizzy, muddle-headed, woozy), ‏صورة مهتزة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

смутен (abashed, confused, constrained, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, muddle-headed, perplexed, perturbed, raddle, self conscious, sheepish, uneasy, unrestful), оглупял (besotted, infatuated), объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), мъгляв (dusky, filmy, nebulous), зашеметен (besotted, dizzy, silly, vertiginous), пийнал (blotto, exhilarated, fresh, glorious, groggy, half seas over, lit, mellow, merry, rocky, sprung, tipsy, vinous). (various references)

Czech

nanicovatý (good for nothing). (various references)

French

confus, éméché. (various references)

German

verzerrt (contorted, distorted, distorts, drawn, ghastly, tortured, warped, warps), verschwommen (ambiguous, bleary, blurred, blurry, dim, dreamy, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, shadowy, vague, woolly), benommen (bemused, dazed, giddily, groggy, light-headed, numb, punch-drink, stunned), benebelt (befogged, dazed, dopey, light-headed, sottish, woozy). (various references)

Greek 

σαστισμένοσ (bemused), ζαλισμένοσ (dazed, dizzy, giddy, tipsy, vertiginous, woozy), αφηρημένοσ (absent, absent minded, abstract, abstracted, far away). (various references)

Hebrew 

מטושטש (hazy, woolly), פזור � פש (absent minded, abstraction, bird witted, scatterbrained), עמום (abstruse, dim, faint, frosting, fuzzy, obscure, obtuse, opaque, tarnish, vague). (various references)

Hungarian

unalmas (bald, boring, cut and dried, dry, dull, dusty, groaty, grotty, heavy, humdrum, insipid, languid, pokey, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, tedious, tiresome, tiring, witless), nehézfejű (dense headed, dim-witted, doltish, lumpish, opaque, pokey, poky, to be slow on the uptake), elbutult (sodden), egyhangú (dull, humdrum, jog trot, jog-trot, monotone, monotonic, monotonous, unanimous, unexciting), bamba (boob, booby, oafish, simple, tomfool). (various references)

Italian

istupidito, intontito (dazed, groggy, numb, stunned), inebetito (dazed, dopey, dopy). (various references)

Manx

shaghraneagh (truant, vagabond, vagrant), dullyr (black, black as outlook, blear, blear of outline, dim, dimness, dingy, dusky, fuzzy, gloom, gloomy, lowering, opaque). (various references)

Pig Latin

uzzymay.(various references)

Portuguese

tapado (thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted), sem graça (clumsy, flatly, milk-and-water, platitudinous, savorless, savourless, tubby, uncomely, unshapely, unsightly), obtuso de espírito, insípido (flat, flavorless, flavourless, frigid, insipid, jejune, mawkish, milk-and-water, pointless, sapless, savorless, savourless, stale, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, washy, watery, wishy-washy), enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotone, monotonous, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, wearisome, weary), aturdido (bewildered, deafened, stunned). (various references)

Romanian

zãpãcit (confounded, confused, dawdler, dim, distracted, dizzy, flighty, giddy, hare-brained, headless, light-headed, madcap, muddle-headed, mused, off one's dot, perplexedly, rash, reckless, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, topsy turvy, woolly-headed, wronghead, wrongheaded), confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded), beat (befuddled, boozy, cock eyed, drunk, drunken, elevated, groggy, in drink, in one's cups, in wine, inebriate, intoxicated, on the fuddle, pickled, pie-eyed, queer, screwed, sottish, squiffed, tight, tipsy), ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild). (various references)

Russian 

сбитый с толку, неясный (ambiguous, cloudy, dicey, dimmish, dreamy, dubious, dull, esoteric, faint, indistinct, inexplicit, misty, nebulous, obscure, recondite, shady, unaccounted-for, unarticulate, unarticulated, unclear). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

maglovit (brumous, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulous, vague), bunovan (delirious). (various references)

Spanish

confuso de embriaguez, borroso (bleary, blurred, faint, fuzzy, indistinct, smudgy, vague), atontado de embriaguez. (various references)

Swedish

suddig (blurred, foggy, fuzzy, smudgy), otydlig (bleary, diaphanous, faint, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, obscure, vague). (various references)

Thai

เลือนราง, ซึ่งสับสน (bemused, tangled). (various references)

Turkish

sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), kasvetli (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressive, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grave, howling, lugubrious, melancholy, mopish, pitchy, sable, sad, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, waste), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

Ukrainian

напідпитку (beery, capernoited, oiled, pye-eyed, tipsy, up the pole, well oiled), заплутаний (complex, complicated, entangled, implicate, inextricable, intricate, involved, knotted, knotty, mazy, perplexed, tangled, wandered), здурілий (cuckoo, gaga, silly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mụ mẫm, trì độn say mèm, ngây dại. (various references)

Misspellings

"Muzzy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buzzy, huzzy, Mazz, Mazzy, Mezy, mizy, mizz, Mizzi, mizzu, mozy, mozz, Mozza, mozzie, Murzi, muz, muza, muziek, Muzny, muzz, uzzy, wuzzy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: yum.

-3 letters: mu, my, um.

+2 letters: muzzily.