doozy
(US, slang, dated) Of high quality; remarkable; excellent.
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Born ~1903 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
Folks, today's new episode is a doozy. Yes, it's about Bonzi Buddy. We also talk about Bryan Johnson's oral sex carfax report, a pair of teens riding a lawn mower through Target, a 91-year-old Gaming Grandma and more.…
That’s the plan It’s gonna be a rainy day so I’m hoping after work today I can take my time to write more of chapter 8 It’s gonna be a doozy of a chapter
Raynes Park would be good as well as could visit The Trafalgar pub which is a doozy of a boozer.
that old nausea-to-sneeze pipeline is a doozy
Maybe...MAYBE.....in the next 6 months before I am permanently age gated off the platform,i might share my "number 1 opinion that will get me cancelled.Because why the f888 not? It's a doozy.
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(US, slang, dated) Of high quality; remarkable; excellent.
“That’s the plan It’s gonna be a rainy day so I’m hoping after work today I can take my time to write more of chapter 8 It’s gonna be a doozy of a chapter”
“Raynes Park would be good as well as could visit The Trafalgar pub which is a doozy of a boozer.”
As soon as the races were billed he began to evolve Schemes — one Doozy scheme followed the other...
“Folks, today's new episode is a doozy. Yes, it's about Bonzi Buddy. We also talk about Bryan Johnson's oral sex carfax report, a pair of teens riding a lawn mower through Target, a 91-year-old Gaming Grandma and more. 48minutesofdogsbarking.com”
— Bluesky· May 2026“That’s the plan It’s gonna be a rainy day so I’m hoping after work today I can take my time to write more of chapter 8 It’s gonna be a doozy of a chapter”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Raynes Park would be good as well as could visit The Trafalgar pub which is a doozy of a boozer.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US, colloquial) Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense.
Most of the test was easy, but the last question was a doozy.
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(US, slang, dated) Sporty, ostentatious, flashy.
The hydra wasn't the doozy? How could it not be the doozy? What could be doozier than that?
“that old nausea-to-sneeze pipeline is a doozy”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Maybe...MAYBE.....in the next 6 months before I am permanently age gated off the platform,i might share my "number 1 opinion that will get me cancelled.Because why the f888 not? It's a doozy.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Oh boy. A real doozy of a movie.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“WIP Skull's havin a real doozy of a headache day, but I am still able to very slowly paint some clanrats (and another stormcast)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Upon debut, LA from Anheuser-Busch was advertised with this absolute doozy of a print ad/poster”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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