Definition of Foziness

1. n. The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.

Definition of Foziness

1. Noun. (Scotland) The state of being fozy; lack of spirit; dullness. ¹

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Definition of Foziness

1. the state of being fozy [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Foziness

1. The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness. "[The Whigs'] foziness can no longer be concealed." (Blackwood's) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foziness

foyerlike
foyers
foyle
foyled
foyles
foyling
foyne
foyned
foynes
foyning
foys
foyson
foysons
fozier
foziest
foziness (current term)
fozinesses
fozy
fpm
fps
fqih
fqihs
fra
fra 1
frab
frabbed
frabbing
frabbit
frabjous
frabjously

Literary usage of Foziness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... and lays on naething but fat and foziness. NORTH. • I forget if you are a great dreamer, James ? ..."

2. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1825)
"... ran thus—" A certain ingenious person of this town (Edinburgh) lately met with a turnip of more than common foziness in his field: he made a cast of it, ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"An ingenious person in Edinburgh met with a Swedish turnip of more than common foziness in his field ; he made a cast of it, clapped it to the cast of ..."

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