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adjective

Groggy adj.

Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs. (Colloq.)

Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; said of pugilists. (Cant or Slang)

(Man.) Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to tender feet; said of a horse.

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Etymology of 'Groggy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Groggy" Quotes from Famous Books

... rounds were filled with good, sharp, scientific work, but toward the close of the fifth both men seemed a trifle groggy. Neither had a ...

— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish

... same moment the two black-clad doctors appeared out of the house with their great green-clad captive between them. He made no resistance, but was still laughing in a groggy and half-witted style. Arthur Inglewood followed in the rear, a dark and red study in the last shades of distress and shame. In this black, funereal, and painfully realistic style the exit from Beacon House was made ...

— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton

... Roberts Rinehart—not producing among 'em one story or novel that will last ten years. This man Cobb—I don't tink he's either clever or amusing—and what's more, I don't think very many people do, except the editors. He's just groggy with advertising. And—oh Harold Bell Wright ...

— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... as good. We can easily knock a hole in it; then make ourselves happy and bouzy—fling our arms about each other like brothers, and go down together to the bottom: after that, I think we shall neither trouble nor be troubled; for we shall hardly come up again, if we go down groggy." ...

— Walladmor: - And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. - In Two Volumes. Vol. I. • Thomas De Quincey

... sling that talk! I might be groggy in me walk; But if yeh say them things to me I'm man enough to crack yeh; see?" "Righto," sez I. "That was me plan. Now wot ...

— Digger Smith • C. J. Dennis

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