adjective
definition
Quite sleepy or tired.
definition
Intellectually slow.
example
Jim is a dozy child.
definition
Decaying, rotten, spongy.
example
dozy wood
Examples of dozy in a Sentence
Abdulwahid's History of the Almohades, written in 1224, was published by Dozy (2nd ed., 1881).
Ibn `Adhari's History of Africa and Spain has been published by Dozy (2 vols., aeiden, 1848-1851), and the Qartas of Ibn abi Zar` by Tornberg (1843).
Conde's pretensions to scholarship have been severely criticized by Dozy, and his history is now discredited.
Dozy, Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne, Leiden, 1861; and Historia Abbadidarum (Scriptorum Arabum loci de Abbadidio), Leiden, 1846.
He had pledged himself after some hesitation to Yazid, but now his 1 Dozy took communis for a gloss to civiliter.
See also "Nouveaux documents pour l'etude de la religion des Harraniens," by Dozy and De Goeje, in the Actes of the sixth Oriental congress, ii.
To judge by the facsimile in Dozy's Israeliten to Mekka, the character is probably essentially one with that of the Syrian Sala inscriptions, which extended through the Nejd and into the Hejaz.3 Safa and Merwa.
Porr dozy bints, they're clearly as thick as pigshit the lot of ' em.
Men they are so dozy at times and dont think further than their noses.
I sometimes felt a little high and other times even dozy.
The researches of Professor Dozy, of Leiden, have amply confirmed this opinion.