a. Sc. Also tozie, -y. [Origin uncertain: it can hardly be the same as TOZY a.]
1. Warm; comforting or comfortable, snug, cosy.
Sometimes app. = ‘fresh, refreshing.’
1720. Ramsay, Patie & Rodger, I. i. How tosie is’t tae snuff the cauller air.
1722. Hamilton, Wallace, III. i. (1774), 58. He … brought them wealth of meat and tosie drink.
1890. J. Service, Notandums, x. 71. As tozie a howff as you would fin’ in a’ Glesco.
2. Slightly intoxicated; tipsy. Also tosy-mosy.
1727. P. Walker, R. Cameron, in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827), I. 278. The Magistrates gave him Drink and kept him tozy.
1794. Poems Eng., Sc., & Lat., 95. (Jam.). What puir man, whan he’s tozy, But spends as he ware bein and cozy?
1828. Moir, Mansie Wauch, xvii. (1849), 111. We had another jug, after which we were both a wee tozy-mozy.
Hence Tosily, -lie, adv.; Tosiness.
1825. in Jamieson.
