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druggy

druggy is the alternative spelling of druggie.

Meaning of druggie

Noun

druggie (plural druggies)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A drug addict or abuser.
    • All up and down the promenade outside King's Cross, druggies are making eye contact with one another.2006 November 6, Will Self, “'Junk Mail'”, in The New York Times

Adjective

druggy (comparative druggier, superlative druggiest)

  1. Acting as if on drugs; torpid, uncoordinated, etc.
    • 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).2023 October 4, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times

Forms of druggy

Noun
pluraldruggies
Adjective
comparativedruggier
superlativedruggiest

Origin of druggy

From drug + -y (diminutive suffix).

From drug + -y (adjectival suffix).

Words formed from druggy

Words that rhyme with druggy

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about druggy

What does druggy mean?
Druggy means acting as if on drugs; torpid, uncoordinated, etc.
What is druggy the alternative spelling of?
Druggy is the alternative spelling of druggie.
What part of speech is druggy?
Druggy is an adjective.

Words near druggy in the dictionary

  1. druggist's shop
  2. druggists
  3. druggo
  4. druggos
  5. druggs
  6. druggy
  7. drughead
  8. drugheads
  9. drugless
  10. druglessness
  11. druglike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: druggy (page history and authors); druggie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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