logy
Other forms: logier; logily
If you're logy, you're slow and listless, not reacting quickly. Most coffee drinkers start the day off in a logy state, before they've had their first cup.
Hot, humid weather makes some people logy, and so does missing an hour or two of sleep. When your dog wakes from the anesthesia after having his teeth cleaned at the vet, he might be logy and groggy for a while before he can walk in a straight line. The adjective logy, coined in the U.S. and primarily used in North America, is fairly uncommon today. The root may be the Dutch log, "heavy or dull."
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stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
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This third book of the Tillerman Cycle follows Jefferson Greene, from age seven to sixteen, whose idea of family is shattered by his often-absent mother, until a move near a small town in Maryland puts him in the same school as Dicey.
In this first book of the Cold Cereal Saga, eleven-year-old gifted students Scott Doe and Emily and Erno Utz discover that the Goode and Harmliss Toasted Cereal Company is not as sweet as its products.