To feel poosly, or poosley, meaning to “feel poorly,” shows up in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York and is linked to Dutch settlement in the area. The word appears in a list of Dutchisms in the fourth edition of H. L. Mencken’s The American Language...
If you get hold of some bad sushi for lunch, you’ll wind up feeling poozley. A caller whose in-laws use poozley insists they must have made it up. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Poozley” Hi, you have A Way with Words. Hi, how are...
