woozy

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I crawled along it as fast as I could--I was about woozy, anyway--and by and by I 'eard the shots go off be'ind me.

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  1. adjective Dazed or confused.
  2. adjective Dizzy or queasy.

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  • I was spacey and woozy, still flying high from the party. —  Cat and Mouse
  • I immediately got woozy, as if I'd just stepped off of a roller coaster. —  EQMM, July 2005
  • Still feeling kind of woozy Marguerite moved a bit closer. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 01 - January 1995
  • She had the woozy, light-headed feeling of too many hours awake on too little food, and hoped to be able to sleep soon. —  The Warslayer
  • Both looked woozy, and Chase, especially, looked like he was about to puke. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 03] - Darkling
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  1. Possibly from alteration of boozy, drunken, from booze.
 

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