Talk:tosy

RFV discussion: January–March 2024
See above: apparently the entry needs to be moved and redefined(?). Wright's EDD has tosie, tosy, tozie, tozy, tossie /ˈtozi/ as one word with three definitions: 1. "slightly intoxicated" (2 cites of tosie, 1 of tosy), 2. "intoxicating" (with 1 cite about "meat and tosie drink"), and 3. "cosy, snug, warm; cheerful, pleasant" (with just two cites, which look to be Scots). The OED has "tozy" /ˈtoʊzi/ as one word (citing two places where Scott's St Ronan's uses tozie like a noun), and "tosy" /ˈtoʊzi/ as a separate word (asserting it "can hardly be the same as tozy" as far as the etymology is concerned); the tosy entry takes the "meat and tosie drink" cite to instead mean "warm, comforting or comfortable, snug, cosy", and provides two cites of "slightly intoxicated, tipsy" (both spelled tozy). I have arranged these on Citations:tosie. - -sche (discuss) 07:32, 4 January 2024 (UTC)


 * OK: when it was RFVed (above) last October, tozy was defined as "soft, like wool that has been teased", from toze+-y, and tosy was defined as an alt form of that. I've tracked down just enough cites to redefine tozy as intoxicated, but I can only find one cite of tosy (and two of tosie). - -sche (discuss) 07:14, 5 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Failed at tosy, moved to tosie. - -sche (discuss) 02:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)