different between staggered vs groggy

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æ??(?)d

Verb

staggered

1. simple past tense and past participle of stagger

   The drunk staggered to the end of the bar before he collapsed.

Adjective

staggered (comparative more staggered, superlative most staggered)

1. Astonished, taken aback.
2. Arranged in a way that is not uniform.

   The U.S. Senate holds staggered elections, with only one third of the seats being filled every two years.

Translations

Anagrams

• raggedest

English

Etymology

grog +? -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.?i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Adjective

groggy (comparative groggier, superlative groggiest)

1. Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.

   The medicine made him groggy and irritable.

2. Of a horse: bearing wholly on its heels when trotting.

Descendants

• ? Czech: grogy / groggy
• ? French: groggy
• ? Spanish: grogui

Translations

Further reading

• groggy at OneLook Dictionary Search

Czech

Adjective

groggy

1. Alternative form of grogy

Further reading

• groggy in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• groggy in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English groggy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.?i/

Adjective

groggy (invariable)

1. groggy

Further reading

• “groggy” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).