a. U.S. slang. Fuddled with drink; hence, muzzy, ‘dotty.’
1890. Arizona Republic, 1 July, 1/3. Future lexicographers will have to put ‘woozy’ in their dictionaries…. Unless you can say ‘woozy’ with the nonchalance of a denizen of the Hub calling for a plate of beans you are very ‘woozy.’
1897. Voice (N. Y.), 22 April, 3/2. In the woozy lexicon of the voting church there is no such word as power.
1909. ‘O. Henry,’ Roads of Destiny, iv. 64. A woman gets woozy on clothes.
1917. Conan Doyle, His Last Bow, viii. 295. ‘The man was mad.’
‘Well, he went a bit woozy towards the end.’
