Noun: wooziness
Pronunciation:(woo-zee-nus)
Wooziness meaning:
- A reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, lightheaded, vertigo
Quotations:
- Lillian Garis – Not all the adventures of the woods are limited to “woozy bears and hooty owls.”
- Randall Garrett – He pounded two swift punches into the amazed crewman, who responded with a woozy, wild blow.
Sample sentences:
- The two rows of green onions made my eyes water, and the smell was making me woozy.
- I tried to sit up and immediately felt woozy.
- By the time they passed the piers along the San Francisco Embarcadero, she felt so woozy she thought she was hallucinating.
- I heard someone say, “Flushing the port,” and then I got a little woozy.
- The giant was woozy, and the boat rocked as he stumbled to his post.
- They set off, Mark’s head still woozy and achy.
- Much of a sudden, I feel woozy, as if I have an overload of flushing in my own head.
- He tried to sit up, his head woozy.
- He stood up, feeling a little woozy from the images that had been swirling in his vision.
- Wright felt weak and woozy, and was having trouble holding the horse.
- I was woozy and dazed and sure that I wasn’t going to make it.
- She is six months pregnant, woozy from the pregnancy tranquilizers.
- Next he rolled a cigarette, and, quietly smoking, he listened woozily to faint meadowlark songs drifting melodically on the clear summer air.
- I feel a second sting on the cheek, a third on my neck, and their venom almost immediately makes me woozy.
- Woozy, Louie lay there as the Bird and the sirens screamed.
- Afraid I might stumble in my woozy state, I stepped carefully out of the car and shut the door behind me without looking back.
- When we got up, June said, “Lord, I feel woozy, like somebody has pulled the plugs in my feet and drained me out.”
- He was relaxing too, growing woozy; he cut the engine and senled back, eyes almost bemusedly on the silvered, shadow-casting landscape below.
- “Do we take guns for big woozy wolves?” asked Grace, growling descriptively.
- The third was when he looked to the constellations and grew woozy.
- “Then I must have three hairs from the tip of a Woozy’s tail, and a drop of oil from a live man’s body.”
- I was getting a bit woozy when Gloria asked me what time it was.
- I would do one thing first, the other way would be woozy.
- Get a woozy eyeful of the bright lights and all for a change?
- He said woozily, “How long was I out?”
- But it does relieve you to write down a lot of woozy nothing that is somehow like you feel.
- It lumbered in woozily, and he closed the door behind it.
- She accepted the drink, warning him that she would become woozy if she drank it straight on the rocks.
- He caught them each by an arm, stared woozily at Etta.
- It weltered round with a woozy sound, and ere I could retreat, With the witless roll of a sodden soul it wantoned to my feet.