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logy

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lo·gy  (lg)
adj. lo·gi·er, lo·gi·est
Characterized by lethargy; sluggish.
[Perhaps from Dutch log, heavy or variant of English loggy, heavy, sluggish, from log.]
logy [ˈləʊgɪ]
adj logier, logiest
Chiefly US dull or listless
[perhaps from Dutch log heavy]
loginess  n
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Adj.1.logy - stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
foggy, groggy, stuporous, dazed
lethargic, unenrgetic - deficient in alertness or activity; "bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights"
Translations
logy [ˈləʊgɪ] ADJ (logier (compar) (logiest (superl))) (US) → torpe, lerdo


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The perception arrested him less when he reflected that what are called advanced ideas are really in great part but the latest fashion in definition--a more accurate expression, by words in LOGY and ISM, of sensations which men and women have vaguely grasped for centuries.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
The fish arc runnin' smaller an' smaller, an' you've took baout as logy a halibut's we're apt to find this trip.
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