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English
Etymology
From grog + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
groggy (comparative groggier, superlative groggiest)
- Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.
The medicine made him groggy and irritable.
- Of a horse: bearing wholly on its heels when trotting.
Descendants
Translations
Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.
- Bulgarian: замаян (bg) (zamajan), олюляващ се (oljuljavašt se)
- Catalan: atordit (ca), estordit (ca)
- Dutch: suf (nl)
- Finnish: tokkurainen, sekava (fi)
- French: étourdi (fr), groggy (fr)
- German: benommen (de), mitgenommen (de), groggy (de)
- Hungarian: kábult (hu), kába (hu)
- Indonesian: keder (id), grogi (id)
- Italian: stordito (it), intontito (it)
- Macedonian: заше́метен (zašémeten)
- Persian: مست تلو تلو خوردن سست (sost mast)
- Portuguese: grogue (pt)
- Russian: затормо́женный (ru) (zatormóžennyj), обалде́лый (ru) (obaldélyj), одуре́лый (ru) (odurélyj)
- Spanish: grogui (es), atontado (es)
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Further reading
- “groggy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Czech
Adverb
groggy
- Alternative form of grogy
Further reading
- “groggy”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “groggy”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English groggy.
Pronunciation
Adjective
groggy (invariable)
- groggy
Further reading