mazy

mazy
mazy (adj.) 1570s, from MAZE (Cf. maze) (n.) + -Y (Cf. -y) (2).

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  • Mazy — L Orneau traversant le village de Mazy …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Mazy — Ma zy, a. [From {Maze}.] Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error. Milton. [1913 Webster] To range amid the mazy thicket. Spenser. [1913 Webster] To run the ring, and trace the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • mazy — index circuitous, inextricable, labyrinthine, sinuous, tortuous (bending) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • mazy — [mā′zē] adj. mazier, maziest like a maze; intricately winding; bewildering mazily adv. maziness n …   English World dictionary

  • mazy — adjective Date: 1579 resembling a maze …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • mazy — mazily, adv. maziness, n. /may zee/, adj., mazier, maziest. full of confusing turns, passages, etc.; like a maze; labyrinthine. [1500 10; MAZE + Y1] * * * …   Universalium

  • mazy — adjective Like a maze …   Wiktionary

  • mazy — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, aberrant, aberrative, adrift, affluent, afloat, alternating, ambagious, amorphous, anfractuous, balled up, bent, billowing, billowy, capricious, changeable, changeful, circuitous, circumlocutory, complex,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • mazy — Mawdesley Glossary dizzy …   English dialects glossary

  • mazy — meɪzɪ adj. labyrinthian, maze like, complicated; confusing …   English contemporary dictionary

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