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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GROG'GY, a. A groggy horse is one that bears wholly on his heels in trotting.
1. In vulgar language, tipsy; intoxicated.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) [syn: dazed, foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (groggier; -est) Etymology: grog Date: 1832 weak and unsteady on the feet or in action • groggily adverb • grogginess noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (groggier, groggiest) incapable or unsteady from being dazed or semi-conscious. Derivatives: groggily adv. grogginess n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Groggy Grog"gy, a. 1. Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs. [Colloq.] 2. Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists. [Cant or Slang] 3. (Man.) Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse. --Youatt.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(groggier, groggiest) If you feel groggy, you feel weak and rather ill. (INFORMAL) She was feeling a bit groggy when I saw her. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

abeyant, addled, apathetic, baffled, bedazzled, befuddled, benumbed, bewildered, cataleptic, catatonic, confounded, confused, dazed, dazzled, dead, dilapidated, doddering, dopey, dormant, dull, faint, flat, foul, heavy, in a daze, in a stupor, in a trance, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inert, knocked silly, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, logy, mazed, muddled, muzzy, numb, numbed, passive, phlegmatic, punch-drunk, punchy, puzzled, ramshackle, reeling, ricketish, rickety, rocky, sedentary, shaky, silly, slack, slaphappy, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, spidery, spindly, staggering, stagnant, standing, static, stunned, stupefied, suspended, tame, teetering, teetery, torpid, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, unaroused, unsteady, weak, weak-kneed, wobbly, woozy