dozy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   sleepy, sluggish, or not fully alert

   I felt dozy after the long afternoon meeting.

2. 2
   adj

   slow to understand or act; foolish

   It was dozy of me to leave the keys in the door.

Formed from doze and -y in the nineteenth century. The original sense was 'sleepy or drowsy'; in informal British use it also developed the figurative meaning 'slow-witted or foolish.'

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