guzzyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

guzzy (plural guzzies)

1. Any of genus Guzmania, of tufted airplants.

語源 2

From Persian [Term?] and Hindi गज़ी (gazī). Possibly connected to guz/gaz, the fabric having been made a guz in length. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

名詞

guzzy (countable and uncountable, plural guzzies)

1. (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.

別の表記

• guzee, guzzee

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