groggy

English

Etymology

grog +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɒ.ɡi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑ.ɡi/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡi

Adjective

groggy (comparative groggier, superlative groggiest)

1. Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.

   The medicine made him groggy and irritable.

2. Of a horse: bearing wholly on its heels when trotting.

Descendants

• → Czech: grogy / groggy
• → French: groggy
• → Spanish: grogui
• → German: groggy

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)
• 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)

Further reading

• “groggy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Czech

Adverb

groggy

1. Alternative form of grogy

Further reading

• groggy in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• groggy in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English groggy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɔ.ɡi/

• Audio

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Adjective

groggy (invariable)

1. groggy

Further reading

• “groggy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.