1829. BUCKSTONE, Billy Taylor, i., 1.
| I, as a gay young woman, will delude | |
| Taylor away from Mary, make him GROGGY, | |
| Then press him off to sea. |
1863. Fun, 23 May, p. 98, c. 2. They fined drunkards and swearers, and there is a record in the parish-books, among others of a similar nature, of a certain Mrs. Thunder who was fined twelve shillings for being, like Mr. Cruikshank’s horse at the Brighton Review, decidedly GROGGY.
1872. Echo, 30 July. A model of perfection had she not shown more than necessary partiality to her elder friend’s brandy bottle during the journey, despite the latter’s oft-repeated caution not to become GROGGY.
2. (colloquial).—Staggering or stupified with drink. Also (stable) moving as with tender feet. Also (pugilists’) unsteady from punishment and exhaustion. Fr., locher = to be GROGGY.
1831. YOUATT, The Horse, ch. xvi., p. 380. Long journeys at a fast pace will make almost any horse GROGGY.
1846–8. THACKERAY, Vanity Fair, vol. ii., ch. v. Cuff coming up full of pluck, but quite reeling and GROGGY, the Fig-merchant put in his left as usual on his adversary’s nose, and sent him down for the last time.
1853. Diogenes, vol. ii., p. 177. The anxiety is not confined to the metropolis; as a respectable grazier, who rides a GROGGY horse, on hearing of it at a public-house the other day, affirmed it to be the mysterious cause of the rise in the value of horseflesh.
1888. The Sportsman, 28 Nov. In the tenth Thompson, who had been growing GROGGY, to the surprise of Evans began to force the fighting.
