Associations to the word «Dozy»

Wiktionary

DOZY, adjective. Quite sleepy or tired.
DOZY, adjective. Intellectually slow.
DOZY, adjective. (carpentry) Decaying, rotten, spongy (wood).

Dictionary definition

DOZY, adjective. Half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats