druggy
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌɡi
Etymology 1
From drug + -y (diminutive suffix).
Noun
druggy (plural druggies)
- Alternative spelling of druggie.
Etymology 2
From drug + -y (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
druggy (comparative druggier, superlative druggiest)
- Acting as if on drugs; torpid, uncoordinated, etc.
- 2023 April 10, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:addict