mazy

English

Etymology

maze + -y

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Adjective

mazy (comparative mazier, superlative maziest)

  1. Mazelike; like a maze.
    Synonym: labyrinthine
  2. Not straight; zigzagging.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1:
      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:
      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.

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