mozy

English

mozy

Shaggy; hairy.
- 1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the ... - Page 223
  The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands.
Musty; starting to decay; tainted.
- 1890, John Drummond Robertson, Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester - Page 197
  Mozy, adj., ...also, as applied to meat, fruit, &c., tainted, musty, beginning to decay.
Faded; dingy.
- 1888, Sidney Oldall Addy, A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield - Page 152
  A calf whose skin is of a dirty grey colour is said to have a mozy look.
Tough, as fruit when frostbitten.
- 1887, Thomas Darlington, The Folk-speech of South Cheshire - Page 266
  Mozy [moa-zi], adj. juiceless, tough, as apples, pears, turnips, &c., are when frostbitten.
(archaic) Muggy.
- 1890, John Drummond Robertson, Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester - Page 197
  Mozy, adj., ' muggy,' as applied to weather, warm and damp ;

mozy (third-person singular simple present mozies, present participle mozying, simple past and past participle mozied)