mazy

English

Alternative forms

• mazey

Etymology

From maze +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪzi/

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• Rhymes: -eɪzi

Adjective

mazy (comparative mazier, superlative maziest)

1. Mazelike; like a maze.

   Synonym: labyrinthine

2. Not straight; zigzagging.
   • 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 57:

     Five miles meandering with a mazy motion,
     Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
     Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
     And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Loomings”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 3:

     Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.

   • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41 – 10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.

3. Confused.
   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Romiero, Act 2

     I am a fool—a purblind, mazy fool,
     And do not know my right hand from my left.

Anagrams

• azym