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Logy
is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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World English Dictionary
logy (ˈləʊɡɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , logier, logiest | |
| chiefly (US) dull or listless | |
| [C19: perhaps from Dutch log heavy] | |
| 'loginess | |
| —n | |
| -logy | |
| —n combining form | |
| 1. | indicating the science or study of: musicology |
| 2. | indicating writing, discourse, or body of writings: trilogy; phraseology; martyrology |
| [from Latin -logia, from Greek, from logos word; see | |
| -logical | |
| —adj combining form | |
| -logic | |
| —adj combining form | |
| -logist | |
| —n combining form | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
logy
"dull and heavy," 1848, Amer.Eng., perhaps from Du. log "heavy, dull."
-logy
"a speaking, discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science," from Gk. -logia (often via Fr. -logie or M.L. -logia), from root of legein "to speak;" thus, "the character or department of one who speaks or treats of (a certain subject);" see lecture.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
-logy suff.
Science; theory; study: dermatology.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Example sentences
Or if you remember that logy is an adjective, then logiest can clear your rack.
The motor screamed but the logy boat barely inched ahead.
During the first ten or fifteen minutes of our interview he seemed logy and understandably preoccupied.
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