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Definition of Foziness
1. n. The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.
Definition of Foziness
1. Noun. (Scotland) The state of being fozy; lack of spirit; dullness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foziness
1. the state of being fozy [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Foziness
1. The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness. "[The Whigs'] foziness can no longer be concealed." (Blackwood's) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foziness
| foyerlike foyers foyle foyled foyles foyling foyne foyned foynes foyning | foys foyson foysons fozier foziest foziness (current term) fozinesses fozy fpm fps | fqih fqihs fra fra 1 frab frabbed frabbing frabbit frabjous frabjously |
Literary usage of Foziness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... and lays on naething but fat and foziness. NORTH. • I forget if you are a
great dreamer, James ? ..."
2. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1825)
"... ran thus—" A certain ingenious person of this town (Edinburgh) lately met with
a turnip of more than common foziness in his field: he made a cast of it, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"An ingenious person in Edinburgh met with a Swedish turnip of more than common
foziness in his field ; he made a cast of it, clapped it to the cast of ..."
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