groggyadj.
/ˈɡrɒɡi/, U.S. /ˈɡrɑɡi/ 1. Intoxicated. Also, characterized by drinking habits, bibulous.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective]
bibbling1565
tippling1567
bousing1569
bibbing1594
stiff1594
upsy Dutch1612
bezzling1617
fuddling1654
potulent1656
toping1668
groggy1770
Bacchant1800
three-bottle1806
swilly1824
potatory1834
two-bottle1855
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1770 T. Norworth in Gentleman's Mag. 559/2 [Eighty names for having drunk too much.] 25. Groggy; this is a West-Indian Phrase; Rum and Water, without sugar, being called Grogg.
1801 M. G. Lewis Sailor's Tale in Tales of Wonder I. xv. 82 Groggy last night, my luck was such, that overboard I slid.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack vi. 34 He wasn't the least groggy.
1868 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 164 In his groggy..destitution.
2. Farriery. Of a horse: Having a disease or weakness in the forelegs, which causes a hobbling or tottering movement.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > disorders of legs > other disorders of legs
syrmatic1748
grogged1796
down in the hip1826
groggy1828
gammy1830
capped1831
overshot1881
1828 Sporting Mag. 22 119 A rare shaped thoroughbred horse very groggy.
1838 J. Stewart Stable Econ. (ed. 2) 384 Long journeys, at a fast pace, will make almost any horse groggy.
1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. xxviii. 222 [Of a horse] Rather groggy on his pins the next morning?
1879 E. K. Bates Egyptian Bonds I. vii. 142 Your steed looks a little groggy about the legs.
3. slang. Weakened in a fight, so as to stagger; hence, gen. shaky, tottering, unsteady.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak
unmightyeOE
unferea1060
unwieldc1220
fade1303
lewc1325
weak1340
fainta1375
sicklyc1374
unwieldyc1386
impotent1390
delicatea1398
lowa1398
unmighta1450
unlustyc1450
low-brought1459
wearyc1480
failed1490
worn1508
caduke?1518
fainty1530
weak1535
debile1536
fluey1545
tewly?1547
faltering1549
puling1549
imbecilec1550
debilitate1552
flash1562
unable1577
unhealthful1595
unabled1597
whindling1601
infirm1608
debilitated1611
bedrid1629
washya1631
silly1636
fluea1645
tender1645
invaletudinary1661
languishant1674
valetudinaire?c1682
puly1688
thriftless1693
unheartya1699
wishy-washy1703
enervate1706
valetudinarian1713
lask1727
wersh1755
palliea1774
wankle1781
asthenic1789
atonic1792
squeal1794
adynamic1803
worn-down1814
totterish1817
asthenical1819
prostrate1820
used up1823
wankya1825
creaky1834
groggy1834
puny1838
imbeciled1840
rickety-rackety1840
muscleless1841
weedy1849
tottery1861
crocky1880
wimbly-wambly1881
ramshackle1889
twitterly1896
twittery1907
wonky1919
strung out1959
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. iv. 59 He was what is termed groggy, from the constant return of blows on the sides of the head.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxix. 282 My poor old governor is exceedingly shaky, very groggy about the head.
1883 C. Keene Let. in G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene (1892) xi. 348 Rheumatism in my heel,..I'm groggy on my pins.
1888 Sportsman 28 Nov. (Farmer) Thompson, who had been growing groggy,..began to force the fighting.
1894 Pall Mall Mag. Feb. 615 It [sc. a lay figure] was getting groggy at the joints.
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