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خَوْزَلَى خوزلى خوزلي and ↓ خَيْزَلَى A certain mode of walking, with a looseness of the joints; like خَوْزَرَى and خَيْزَرَى: (S:) or a heavy, or sluggish, manner of walking; as also ↓ خَيْزَلٌ : (K:) the dual of خَوْزَلَى [to which that of خَيْزَلَى is similar] is خَوْزَلَانِ. (IAmb, TA in art. قهقر.) Accord. to the T, one says, ↓ هُوَ يَمْشِى الخَيْزْلَى and الخَوْزَلَى, meaning He walks with an elegant, and a proud and self-conceited, gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side: or as though thorns pricked his feet. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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