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While it's often maintained that the word doozy derives from the "Duesenberg" in the name of the famed Duesenberg Motor Company, this is impossible on chronological grounds. Doozy was first recorded (in the form dozy) in eastern Ohio in 1916, four years before the Duesenberg Motor Company began to manufacture passenger cars; the related adjective doozy, meaning "stylish" or "splendid," is attested considerably earlier, in 1903. So where did doozy come from? Etymologists believe that it's an altered form of the word daisy, which was used especially in the late 1800s as a slang term for someone or something considered the best.
Examples of doozy in a Sentence
Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025
Essentially a beefed-up version of its 2017 predecessor, Nintendo’s latest hardware arrives with a bona fide doozy: an open-world Mario Kart game.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 23 May 2025
One of the researchers behind that last doozy, Dr. Gustav Nyström, and his colleague Ashutosh Sinha from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) have cracked a whole new way to leverage the strange and magical properties of fungal mycelium.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 16 May 2025
While the sponsor seems to have changed this year again (from MSC Cruises to AWS), the official name remains a doozy: the Formula 1 AWS Gran Premio del Made in Italy e dell’Emilia-Romagna.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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“Doozy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doozy. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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