Definition of Loggish

1. resembling a log [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loggish

loggerheads
loggers
loggets
loggia
loggias
loggie
loggier
loggiest
logginess
logging
logging in
logging off
logging on
logging residues
loggings
loggish (current term)
loggy
logia
logic
logic-chopper
logic analyzer
logic board
logic boards
logic bomb
logic bombs
logic chopper
logic diagram
logic element
logic fallacies
logic fallacy

Literary usage of Loggish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1897)
"Ow mosh loggish 'ave you, sare?" And now, if you are a stranger in Paris, listen to the words or Titmarsh.—If you cannot speak a syllable of French, ..."

2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... sare ; table-d'hôte, sure, a cinq heures ; breakfast, sare, in French or English style ;—I am the commissionaire, sare, and vill see to your loggish." . ..."

3. Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between by William Dean Howells (1906)
"... the trimmer lines of one shipping in every kind, sees them lumpish and loggish, with bows that can ..."

4. The Paris Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray (1852)
"Ow mosh loggish ave you, sare 3" And now, if you are a stranger in Paris, listen to the words of Titmarsh.—If you cannot speak a syllable of French, ..."

5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... a log, klotzig, blockish, loggish, coarse, unpolished, rustic.—Küttner. E. clod is used in both senses ; of a lump of earth and an awkward rustic. ..."

6. London Films and Certain Delightful English Towns by William Dean Howells (1911)
"In fact, the American eye, trained to the trimmer lines of one shipping in every kind, sees them lumpish and loggish, with bows that can ..."

7. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"The lower course of the G. is »loggish and dreary in the highest degree ; the «ream itself is turbid and muddy, and eats its way through an alluvial level ..."

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