logy

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

(Dutch, log, heavy, slow, unwieldy.) We have received this word from the Dutch, and apply it generally to men. He's a logy man, i. e. a slow-moving, heavy man. 'He is a logy preacher,' i. e. dull. The Dutch say, Een log verstand, a dull wit.

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