Author's Note;
doozy = something outstanding or unique of its kind.
floozie = (from internet): In the early 20th century US, "floozie", a colloquial form of "flossy", was most often used in the first sense of "elegant, attractive", especially with reference to young women, but by mid-century the "saucy" element had come to the fore and a "floozy" in popular parlance was a wild and disreputable "party girl", if not actually a prostitute ("He bought a red racy car and went skidding around - with every floozy in town; the only nice girls you ever saw in that car were his sisters. - Truman Capote, 1951).

Such derogatory devolution of terms applied to women is sadly common in English. The epithet - hussy, for instance, is derived from the honorable "housewife". On the bright side (I guess), "floozie" is such an antiquated term that it is almost always used in a joking sense today.

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