utzy
adj.— «Mr. Graff, now 53, thought he had retired back in 1999 when he sold Spice to Playboy TV for a neat $100 million, moved to a small town near the Berkshires and took over an old country store. “I sliced bologna, sold mice traps, penny candy,” he says. “It was my Norman Rockwell moment.” And then? “I got utzy,” he says. “I got bored.”» —“What Women Want to Watch” by Susan Dominus New York Times Aug. 29, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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