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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

... leaving on the following day and that he would be sent by it. Mac was put in a ward that afternoon. He was brought some clothes for the morning, but, being fed up with bed, unknown to the sister, he donned them straight away and went and sat by the window. He felt very groggy, but getting up and ...

— The Tale of a Trooper • Clutha N. Mackenzie

... water. Grog was first introduced into the navy about the year 1740, by Admiral Vernon, to prevent the sailors intoxicating themselves with their allowance of rum, or spirits. Groggy, or groggified; drunk. ...

— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

... in a sudden way—that was the word Synonymous. When she happened to fetch out a long word which had had its day weeks before and its prepared meanings gone to her dump-pile, if there was a stranger there of course it knocked him groggy for a couple of minutes, then he would come to, and by that time she would be away down wind on another tack, and not expecting anything; so when he'd hail and ask her to cash in, I (the only dog on the ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

Words linked to "Groggy" : unenrgetic, dazed, logy, grogginess