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mozy

adjective, verb

mozy is spelled M-O-Z-Y: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, mozy means “Shaggy; hairy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in mozy?

Letters4: M-O-Z-Y
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is mozy?

Mozy appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of mozy

  • mozies present, singular, he/she/it
  • mozying participle, present
  • mozied participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does mozy mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Shaggy; hairy.

    The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands.

  2. 2

    Musty; starting to decay; tainted.

    Mozy, adj., ...also, as applied to meat, fruit, &c., tainted, musty, beginning to decay.

  3. 3

    Faded; dingy.

    A calf whose skin is of a dirty grey colour is said to have a mozy look.

  4. 4

    Tough, as fruit when frostbitten.

    Mozy [moa-zi], adj. juiceless, tough, as apples, pears, turnips, &c., are when frostbitten.

  5. 5

    archaicMuggy.

    Mozy, adj., ' muggy,' as applied to weather, warm and damp ;

verb

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of mosey.

    And does the gastric unpleasantness still linger around the cardiac end, or has it migrated to the pylorus, and in doing so, did it seem to mozy along the lesser or greater stomachal curvature?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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