different between mozo vs mozy

English

Etymology

From Spanish mozo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??z??/, /?mo?o/

Noun

mozo (plural mozos)

1. A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter.
2. A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
3. An unmarried man, a boy. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Anagrams

• Zoom, zoom

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese moço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of unknown origin. Cognate with Portuguese moço, Asturian mozu, and Spanish mozo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?o?/, (western) /?moso?/

Noun

mozo m (plural mozos, feminine moza, feminine plural mozas)

1. boy; teenager; young man; single man

   Synonyms: homiño, rapaz

2. boyfriend

   Synonym: noivo

3. (archaic) junior (person that is younger than other person)
   • 1485, M. Lucas Álvarez and P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada: Edicións do Castro, page 709:

     Vasco d'Oseve o mozo, fillo de Vasco d'Oseve o vello

     Vasco de Oseve junior, son of Vasco de Oseve senior

Derived terms

• mociño

Adjective

mozo m (feminine singular moza, masculine plural mozos, feminine plural mozas)

1. young; younger

References

• “moço” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “moço” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mozo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mozo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mozo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Potawatomi

Etymology

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Noun

mozo

1. moose

Inflection

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• moço (obsolete)

Etymology

Uncertain origin, probably ultimately identical with muchacho (cf. mocho), or from Latin musteus (“must-like, of new wine, fresh”), from musteum, from mustum. Other theories include a pre-Roman origin. Compare Portuguese moço, Galician mozo, Asturian mozu. Cf. also Catalan mosso (taken from Spanish) and motxo. There may alternatively be a link to Italian mozzo (“cut off, docked”), French mousse (“blunt”), or Basque motz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?mo?o/, [?mo.?o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?moso/, [?mo.so]

Noun

mozo m (plural mozos, feminine moza, feminine plural mozas)

1. boy, lad, young man, youth
2. servant, helper, steward, manservant
3. (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru) waiter, server

   Synonym: camarero

4. cat, tomcat

Derived terms

• aeromozo
• mozo de espadas

Descendants

• Catalan: mosso
• ? Italian: mozzo
• ? Yosondúa Mixtec: musu

Adjective

mozo (feminine moza, masculine plural mozos, feminine plural mozas)

1. young, youthful
2. unmarried

Further reading

• “mozo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Adjective

mozy

1. Shaggy; hairy.
   • 1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the ... - Page 223

     The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands.

2. Musty; starting to decay; tainted.
   • 1890, John Drummond Robertson, Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester - Page 197

     Mozy, adj., ...also, as applied to meat, fruit, &c., tainted, musty, beginning to decay.

3. Faded; dingy.
   • 1888, Sidney Oldall Addy, A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield - Page 152

     A calf whose skin is of a dirty grey colour is said to have a mozy look.

4. Tough, as fruit when frostbitten.
   • 1887, Thomas Darlington, The Folk-speech of South Cheshire - Page 266

     Mozy [moa-zi], adj. juiceless, tough, as apples, pears, turnips, &c., are when frostbitten.

5. (archaic) Muggy.
   • 1890, John Drummond Robertson, Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester - Page 197

     Mozy, adj., ' muggy,' as applied to weather, warm and damp ;

Verb

mozy (third-person singular simple present mozies, present participle mozying, simple past and past participle mozied)

1. Alternative spelling of mosey
   • 1906, Texas Medical Association, Texas State Journal of Medicine - Page 9

     And does the gastric unpleasantness still linger around the cardiac end, or has it migrated to the pylorus, and in doing so, did it seem to mozy along the lesser or greater stomachal curvature?

   • 1919, National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (U.S.) - Marine engineers, Journal of Proceedings of the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial ... - Page 10

     ...who drove into a hill town with his ox cart, and they were mozying along the road, and he suddenly came face to face with a new sign he had...

   • 1938, Zane Grey, Raiders of Spanish Peaks - Page 7

     Mozy along.

   • 2005, R. E. Wilburn, Lo, These Many Years - Page 89

     Patina had the baby; Louisa was going off to college to be a pre-med student, and Charlotte just mozied along.

See also

• tozy-mozy

Anagrams

• zymo-