单词 | druggy |
释义 | druggyadj. 1. a. Of, relating to, or of the nature of drugs or medicinal substances; characteristic of drugs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] druggy1583 druggish1617 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H5v It is hard to get any thing of them [sc. apothecaries] that is right pure and good of it selfe, but druggie baggage, and such counterfait stuffe as is starke naught. 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) iii. lxxxviii. 136 His loathed Potion..Whose druggy taste goes so against their mind. 1720 A. Hill Gideon ii. xxviii. 64 Physic's wide Want, this druggy Tract supplies. 1890 H. James tr. A. Daudet Port Tarascon i. vi The druggy aroma. 1910 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 10 Jan. 12/4 (advt.) Its delightful flavor makes its use a pleasure and a habit, and proves that a ‘druggy’ taste is not necessary to efficiency. 1947 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 47 53 (advt.) Yodora gives lasting protection. Has a delicate fragrance..no druggy odor. 1990 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. (Sophisticated Traveler Mag.) 22 I inhale the druggy smell of diesel fumes, which are met by the smell of the Gellert's thermal baths, vaguely sulfurous and not unpleasant. b. Characteristic of, caused by, or given to taking narcotic drugs. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [adjective] druggy1919 hoppy1942 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [adjective] > narcotic narcotic1526 druggy1919 1919 Let. in Times 9 July 4/4 Say, dear, you remember telling me one evening that you got ‘druggy’ sometimes?.. Whatever it is, please don't do it, 'cos..‘druggy’ does not sound very nice. 1959 J. E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo & Lore 84 Hoppy—Having a peculiar ‘druggy’ odor. 1971 Time 17 May 34 It begins with that familiar buzzing, distorted guitar sound and inimitable druggy sentiments. 1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 76/2 He..pronounced, in an affable druggy drawl, [etc.]. 1984 Times 8 Oct. 13/1 I was enmeshed in a very druggy crowd at the time. 1994 D. Cassidy & C. Deffaa C'mon, get Happy ii. 24 One druggy friend I knew had tried to commit suicide a few times. 2006 N. S. Dhaliwal Tourism v. 95 Mia's boyfriend. He's so druggy. He loses his head if he hasn't had any. 2. = dreggy adj.Now U.S. regional. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] mixedc1300 pollutea1382 infectc1384 unpurea1398 fouledc1400 drossyc1420 polluteda1425 defouledc1440 dreggyc1440 feculent1471 filed1483 violate?c1500 feding1502 fly-blown1528 cankered1530 defiled1530 contagious1547 dregful1552 contaminatea1555 menstruous1560 dreggish1561 conspurcate1563 empoisoned1581 inquinated?1593 pollutionate1593 fly-bitten1598 impure1598 druggy1599 contaminated1609 transboundary1918 1599 T. M. Micro-cynicon Prol sig. A8v Drugie Lees mixt with the liquid flood. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xix. sig. L7, Transcending the sence of the druggy flesh. 1696 J. Lead Fountain of Gardens 72 I altogether incapable am to join to Baal, or to immerse my self with the druggy polluted Life of this outward Principle. 1906 Dial. Notes 134 Druggy, dreggy. ‘My! Isn't this water druggy.’ 1912 Texas Mag. Feb. 59/2 Then he jes' throwed what little druggy water he had left out on top of it and quit the job right there. 1999 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 24 Oct. c18/6 Fishing the north shore requires a moving tide and a slight murk beneath the surface that locals call ‘druggy water’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1583 |
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