fozy

[ foh-zee, foz-ee ]

adjective

, Chiefly Scot.

, fo·zi·er, fo·zi·est.

1. spongy; loose-textured.
2. (of a vegetable or fruit) overripe.
3. (of a person) fat; flabby.
4. Informal. dull-witted; stupid; fatheaded.

Other Words From

• fozi·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fozy¹

1815–25; compare Dutch voos spongy, Low German fussig

Example Sentences

CrowdStrike’s security experts ultimately determined that the DNC had been breached by separate groups, dubbed “Cozy Bear” and “Fozy Bear,” both widely believed to be associated with the Russian government.

From Washington Times

István Fózy of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest provided many of the biographical details.

From Scientific American

Being busy at the time, turning a pair of kuttikins for old Mr Molleypouch the mealmonger, when the lassie came back, I had no mind of asking a sight of the sheep’s head, as I aye like the little blackfaced, in preference to the white, fat, fozy Cheviot breed: but, most providentially, I catched a gliskie of the wench passing the shop window, on the road over to Jamie Coom the smith’s, to get it singed, having been dispatched there by her mistress. 

From Project Gutenberg

His round, oily face, good creature, was just as if it had been cut out of a big turnip, it was so fat, fozy, and soft; but at last, after some ado, we succeeded, and he looked about him with a wild stare, opening his two red eyes, like Pandore oysters, asking what had happened; and we got him hoized up on his legs, tying the blue shawl round his bull-neck again.

From Project Gutenberg

Just a plain, stout, fozy, sappy burrow-man, keeping a gospel shop, with scarcely so much of a man's parts as will let him fend a blow in the face.

From Project Gutenberg