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Word of the Day for Saturday, June 28, 2008mazy \MAY-zee\, adjective: Resembling a maze in form or complexity; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing. All day and all night, the waves threw themselves dementedly against their rocky barricade, sending an endless roar like heavy traffic through the glacial rooms and mazy, echoing corridors of the old house. By now some 20 characters are caught in the turns and baffles of Mr. Dunne's mazy plot. Unfortunately, the result is a dense, mazy book, a book that instead of illuminating the artist's work only succeeds in erecting a pretentious literary scrim between it and the average reader. Mazy is the adjective form of maze, which comes from Middle English mase, from masen, "to confuse, to daze," from Old English amasian, "to confound." It is related to amaze, which originally meant "to bewilder." | |||||||||
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