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单词 druggy
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druggyadj.

Brit. /ˈdrʌɡi/, U.S. /ˈdrəɡi/
Forms: 1500s drugie, 1500s–1600s druggie, 1600s– druggy.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: drug n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < drug n.1 + -y suffix1.In sense 2 either a development of the present word by association with dreggy adj., or a variant of dreggy adj. by association with drug n.1; perhaps compare drug n.1 3; drug is apparently not attested as a variant of dreg n.
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.
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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.
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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).
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