▪ I. † mosy, n. Obs.
A dish in cookery.
| 14.. in Househ. Ord. (1790) 460 Mosy for Soper in Somer. Take smale chekyns and chop hom [etc.]. |
▪ II. mosy, a. Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈməʊzɪ)
Also 5 moosy, 6 moocie, 7, 9 mozy, 9 mosey, mosie, moosie, moozy, mouzy.
[ME. mosy (? OE. *mosiᵹ), f. mos moss n.1 + -y. Cf. mossy a., which is a later formation with the same elements.]
Downy, hairy; = mossy a. 3 and 4.
| 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 13704 Pyled and seynt as any kaat, And moosy [v.r. mosy] heryd as a raat. 1559 Elyot Dict. s.v. Barba, Incipiens barba..a younge moocie bearde. 1570 Levins Manip. 108/34 Mosy, puber. 1578 Lyte Dodoens ii. lxxxviii. 267 Dictam, is..a hoate and sharp herbe..his leaues be..somewhat hoare or mosy with a certaine fine downe. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 159 It is of a fungous or Mozy substance. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Mozy, shaggy; covered with hair. The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands. |
Hence ˈmosiness.
| 1538 Elyot Dict., Iulus,..the mosynesse of the outwarde parte of fruites... Iuli, be also the mosynesse or softe heares, whiche do growe on the beardes & visages of yong men, before that they be shauen. |