groggy

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grog·gy

(grŏg′ē)

adj. grog·gi·er, grog·gi·est

Unsteady and dazed; shaky.

[From grog.]

grog′gi·ly adv.

grog′gi·ness n.

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groggy

(ˈɡrɒɡɪ)

adj, -gier or -giest

1. dazed or staggering, as from exhaustion, blows, or drunkenness

2. faint or weak

ˈgroggily adv

ˈgrogginess n

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grog•gy

(ˈgrɒg i)

adj. -gi•er, -gi•est.

1. unsteady.

2. dazed and weakened.

[1760–70]

grog′gi•ly, adv.

grog′gi•ness, n.

groggy

- From grog, "spirits mixed with water," it first meant "intoxicated."

groggy

adjective dizzy, faint, stunned, confused, reeling, shaky, dazed, wobbly, weak, unsteady, muzzy, stupefied, befuddled, punch-drunk, woozy (informal) She was still feeling a bit groggy when I saw her.

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Translations

مُتَرَنِّح، سَكْران

nejistývratký

groggyomtåget

groggy schwach auf den Beinen

chancelant

tántorgó

óstöîugur; ringlaîur

barcollante ebbro malsicuro

svirduliavimas

grīļīgsnedrošs

sendeleyensersemlemiş

脚步踉跄的

groggy

[ˈgrɒgɪ] ADJ (groggier (compar) (groggiest (superl))) (from blow) → atontado; (from alcohol) → tambaleante (Boxing) → groggy, grogui
I feel a bit groggy → estoy un poco mareado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

groggy

[ˈgrɒgi] adj → groggy inv
to be groggy from sth → être groggy à cause de qch

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

groggy

adj (+er) (inf) → angeschlagen (inf), → groggy pred inv (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

groggy

[ˈgrɒgɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (dazed) → stordito/a, intontito/a; (shaky) → malfermo/a, barcollante

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

groggy

(ˈgrogi) adjective

weak and walking unsteadily. I'm not seriously hurt – I just feel a bit groggy.

ˈgrogginess noun

groggy

a. atontado-a, vacilante, tambaleante.

groggy

adj mareado y débil (debido a una droga, falta de sueño, etc.)

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until I got groggy an' didn't know much of anything.

I'm that groggy I can't stand, but I just keep a-goin', wallopin' the Terror clear across the ring to his corner, where he slips an' falls, an' I fall on top of 'm.

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"All I know, Genevieve, is that you feel good in the ring when you've got the man where you want him, when he's had a punch up both sleeves waiting for you and you've never given him an opening to land 'em, when you've landed your own little punch an' he's goin' groggy, an' holdin' on, an' the referee's dragging him off so's you can go in an' finish 'm, an' all the house is shouting an' tearin' itself loose, an' you know you're the best man, an' that you played m' fair an' won out because you're the best man.

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“Stop your grog, indeed!” said Remarkable, rising with great indignation, and seizing a candle; “you’re groggy now, Benjamin and I’ll quit the room before I hear any misbecoming words from you.” The housekeeper retired, with a manner but little less dignified, as she thought, than the air of the heiress, muttering as she drew the door after her, with a noise like the report of a musket, the opprobrious terms of “drunkard,” “sot,” and “ beast.”

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(that is, it would have been, only Waterloo had not yet taken place)--it was Ney's column breasting the hill of La Haye Sainte, bristling with ten thousand bayonets, and crowned with twenty eagles--it was the shout of the beef-eating British, as leaping down the hill they rushed to hug the enemy in the savage arms of battle-- in other words, Cuff coming up full of pluck, but quite reeling and groggy, the Fig-merchant put in his left as usual on his adversary's nose, and sent him down for the last time.

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"Lord, what a turnip!" Then, in a somewhat groggy kind of way, he began to laugh.

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According to coach Fred Hoiberg, his second-year point guard still was feeling dizzy and groggy in the wake of the concussion he suffered last week in the loss to Golden State.

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El Pais said Madrid had been left looking "groggy" and "laboured" by Spurs, while the lead headline from AS - another paper based in the capital - read: "Nightmare in Wembley".