doozie n.
1. (US, also doosie, doosy, dooze, doozey, doozy, duzey) a thing or person deemed to be extraordinary, remarkable or otherwise noteworthy.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | DN IV 274: Dozy [sic] adj. Term of praise. ‘Isn’t that fish a dozy?’. | |
| Ogden Standard (UT) 2 May 9/4: Anything that is O.K. is always ‘Jake’ [...] ‘Doozy’ is easy or agreeable. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 409: Had a gal named Susie, (Surely was a doosie,) / Sassy little floozie / Down on the Bigerlow farm. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 72: doozy Attractive; excellent. | |
| et al. DAUL 64/2: Duzey. (Carnival) Anything unusual. | |
| (con. WWII) Barren Beaches of Hell 255: I can still throw a doozy. | |
| , | | DAS 156/1: doosy doozie doozy [...] 1951 : ‘The first orchestra I ever had was a real doozie.’ Radio broadcast. |
| Pinktoes (1989) 87: ‘Did you get to see it?’ [...] ‘No, but I’ve heard it’s a doozie.’. | |
| Of Minnie the Moocher and Me 124: We had one doozy of an opening in Virgina Beach. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | London Fields 281: The vaulting viruses, all those wowsers and doozies and lulus, are of course increasingly numerous. | |
| Honey, Honey, Miss Thang 45: Well, he was a doozy! | |
| Observer Rev. 20 June 3: Did he think, I ventured with another doozy, that his work was taken seriously enough as an art form. | |
| Guardian Editor 7 Jan. 16: The Queen has a doozy of a driveway with its gold-gilded gate. | |
 | Morn. Star (Vernon, BC) 9 May 58/2: If you particularly like gags involving animals getting maimed, there’s a doozie. | |
| Black Swan Green 309: That’ll be one doozy of a shiner. | |
| Hard Bounce [ebook] I knew a hangover when I saw one, and she looked like she was coping with a doozy. |
2. (US campus) a hard examination.
| et al. CUSS. |