After the feast comes the logy
November 25, 2009 12:00 pm
A final post from Stephen King’s The Gunslinger. About a hundred pages in, the title character has been traveling across a desert and has just met a boy who has given him food and water:
He ate and drank until he felt logy, and then settled back.
I wasn’t sure what this meant, though from the context I would have guessed it meant satisfied.
Nope. I looked it up, and it means “sluggish” or “groggy.” Remember that when everyone is slumped on the couch tomorrow night.
American Heritage and Merriam-Webster Online give slightly different etymologies:
- AHD: Perhaps from the Dutch log, meaning heavy or a variant of the English loggy, meaning heavy, sluggish, from log, from the Middle English logge.
- M-W: Perhaps from Dutch log; akin to the Middle Low German luggich, meaning lazy.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! (And happy Nov. 26 to my British, Aussie, Canadian and other readers abroad!) See you all next week.
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Be careful with looking up stuff from the Dark Tower, eventually there’s a whole different set of dialect introduced.
Yes, I think I just assumed that it was a Dark Tower neologism, like ‘popkin’. Although I have my doubts about ‘popkin’ too now…