doozie

English - Turkish

Definition of doozie in English Turkish dictionary

(veya doozy-çoğul: doozies) Sıradışı, eşi benzeri olmayan,emsalsiz

English - English

Definition of doozie in English English dictionary

something that is extraordinary. Often used in the context of troublesome, difficult or problematic, but can be used positively as well

Most of the test was easy, but the last question was a doozie.

(also doozy-plural doozies) Something outstanding or unique of its kind

{i} something wonderful or extraordinary, something unique, something that is outstanding of its type

Synonyms

lulu

Etymology

() American. Earlier seen also as dozy. From the flower named daisy, English slang from the eighteenth century on, for something that was particularly appealing or excellent. It moved into North American English in the early nineteenth century and turns up, for example, in Thomas Chandler Haliburton’s The Clockmaker of 1836: "I raised a four year old colt once, half blood, a perfect picture of a horse, and a genuine clipper, could gallop like the wind; a real daisy, a perfect doll, had an eye like a weasel, and nostrils like Commodore Rodgers’s speakin’ trumpet". Often attributed in folk etymology to "Duesie", a nickname for the early-Twentieth-Century American luxury automobile, Duesenberg, but this is certainly false as the term predates the automobile.