guzzy
English edit
Etymology edit
From Persian [Term?] and Hindi गज़ी (gazī). Possibly connected to guz/gaz, the fabric having been made a guz in length.[1] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun edit
guzzy (countable and uncountable, plural guzzies)
- (archaic, India) A kind of coarse cotton cloth.
- 1810, Thomas H. Williamson, The East India Vade-Mecum, page 52:
- […] a double sheet, made of very coarse cotton cloth, called guzzy; of which tents are usually constructed.
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References edit
- ^ Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “guzzy”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].