Wednesday, July 9th, 2008...10:32 am

Learn-A-Word Wednesday: mazy \MAY-zee\

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adjective:

Resembling a maze in form or complexity; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing.

By now some 20 characters are caught in the turns and baffles of Mr. Dunne’s mazy plot.
– George Stade, “A Fisherman of Guilt”, New York Times, March 28, 1982

Mazy is the adjective form of maze, which comes from Middle English mase, from masen, “to confuse, to daze,” from Old English amasian, “to confound.” It is related to amaze, which originally meant “to bewilder.”

I like this word because it rhymes with “lazy.”

I like that you can just add a “y” to a word to make a new adjective.

How about “tractory” for something like a tractor? Or “highrisey” for something tall?

Or “sunny” for…oh, that’s already a word.

Let’s go back to “lazy”, shall we? That’s what all this sun is making me.

And sleepy.

Hey….there’s another one!

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