Lexicographical Neighbors of Loggish
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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