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Groggy   /grˈɑgi/   Listen
adjective
Groggy  adj.  
1.
Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs. (Colloq.)
2.
Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; said of pugilists. (Cant or Slang)
3.
(Man.) Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to tender feet; said of a horse.





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"Groggy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Texan good-naturedly. "Can't you see his laig got jammed till he's groggy? Wonder is, he didn't take the dust! They don't raise ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... shooting, indeed. One broadside would have put a destroyer out of business as easily as a "Jack Johnson" does for a dug-out; and it would have made a cruiser of the same class as the one firing pretty groggy—this not from any experience of being on a light cruiser or any desire to be on one when it receives such a salute. But it seems to be waiting for the Germans any time that ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... hawk. How many he had taken before I marked him, and how many more he took after I lost him among the other birds, I cannot say; but, standing up in the skiff, I followed him around and around until he made his nineteenth splash,—in less than half as many minutes,—when I got so groggy that his twentieth splash I came ...
— Roof and Meadow • Dallas Lore Sharp
... night before you can turn around, so you can't do better than to go right to the dining-room from your bed. It's been so cold that I can hardly get warm in a bath, but a hot drink's as good as an overcoat: I've had some long pegs, and between you and me, I'm a bit groggy; the booze ...
— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter
... said and Alice started to wipe her off. While she was doing that the woman came to in a groggy sort of way and Pop fed her some thin soup and in the middle of his doing it ...
— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber


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