Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) drunk.

1851		Kalida Venture (OH) 11 Apr. 2/4: Drunk [...] breezy.
a.1856		Burlington Sentinel in Hall (1856) 461: We give a list of a few of the various words and phrases which have been in use, at one time or another, to signify some stage of inebriation: [...] breezy.
1890		A.J. Vogan Black Police 69: He is a bit ‘breezy’ just now, for he has already begun to ‘knock down his cheque’ [...] but he sobers up under the keen ‘no nonsense’ glance.

2. bright and cheery, sometimes too loud and bumptious.

1860		Surtees Plain or Ringlets? (1926) 19: Captain Languisher looked sweet on Miss Snowball, and miss Nettleworth hung on Mr de Breezey’s every word.
1887		Lantern (New Orleans, LA) 14 May 2: I pretty nearly always manage to secure a nice breezy bit of gossip.
1895		Manchester Courier 23 Mar. 14/2: The Red Gulch ‘Snorter’ of Arizona is a breezy journal.
1900		Sporting Times 28 Apr. 1/2: According to a certain breezy young racing man, more noted for the up-to-dateness of his rhyming slang than for his sobriety, he lost his Epsom winnings through getting ‘picked up by the San Toy’s’.
1910		Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 109: The former had been so very cheery and breezy.
1918		J.N. Hall High Adventure 27: His French translation of some of our breezy Americanisms.
1926		‘Sapper’ Final Count 852: He was afraid, seeing that I was obviously a breezy customer, that I might make a dash for it.
1930		J. Lait Put on the Spot 177: You’re a pretty breezy bird for a spot like this.
1949		R. Chandler Little Sister 32: You ain’t getting no place with that breezy manner.
1961		J. Kirkwood There Must Be a Pony! 273: She put on a very breezy. Let’s-get-to-it attitude.
1975		L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 209: Do you just dictate it off to a steno. that gives it such a breezy feeling?
1999		Guardian Rev. 25 June 25: They risk annoying their public with the breezy, poppy It’s Only Love.

3. (Aus.) short-tempered.

1902		Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Jul. 13/2: N.S.W. Governor Rawson, eager to seek the bubble reputation at the common mouth, didn’t funk it, last Saturday, when he found that he had to share the opening ceremony of Pyrmont Bridge with a breezy, horny-handed crowd.
1910		Truth (Brisbane) 4 Dec. 11/3: ‘Y’r wouldn’t av got me ’ere t’night oh’y f’r things beln breezy In th ’appy ’ome circle’.
1950		A. Buckeridge Jennings Goes To School 29: ‘Do you mean he gets angry?’ he asked [...] ‘We call it breezy,’ replied Atkinson.

4. (UK black) of a place or object, smart, fashionable.

1953		‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 80: ‘I saw Martin today in a breezy car’.
1997		N. Barlay Curvy Lovebox 70: Nood’s burglarized a coupla breezy yards in his time.

5. (US black) of a woman, attractive.

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