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logy, a. N. Amer.|ˈləʊgɪ|
[Of uncertain origin: cf. Du. log heavy, dull.]
a. Dull and heavy in motion or thought.
1859Bartlett Dict. Americanisms, Logy, heavy, slow, stupid... He's a logy man, i.e. a slow-moving, heavy man. ‘He is a logy preacher’, i.e. dull. 1883Harper's Mag. Aug. 452/2 Outside ballast..made boats logy. 1887Detroit Free Press 21 May 2/3 He [Barnum] is heavier, and a trifle logy. 1890in Leffingwell Upland Shooting 459 They [greyhounds] became ‘logy’ and out of heart. 1907J. G. Millais Newfoundland 339 Logy, heavy, dull. Thus, a logy day. 1935H. Davis Honey in Horn iv. 37 Ordinarily he could have out-wrestled her..but he was fagged and logy. 1955U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 159. 277 Mrs. Murphy informed me that Ute medicine men placed a root (unidentified) in the mouth of an opponent's race horse to make it logy. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. i. 291 And do you feel run down at the end of the day? that dull logy tired feeling that just seems to creep through you? 1973E. Pace Any War will Do (1974) ii. 97 The heat, the flies, the logy ground swell.
b. Used as n.: A heavy fish.
1897R. Kipling Capt. Cour. 61 ‘He's a logy. Give him room accordin' to his strength’, cried Dan. ‘I'll help ye. ‘No, you won't’, Harvey snapped, as he hung on to the line. ‘It's my first fish’. |