dopey adj.1
1. (US) rendering one sleepy or comatose.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Tales of the Ex-Tanks 123: The stuff they purvey on the trains always had a dopey effect on me. |
2. mildly ill; comatose.
| Tales of the Ex-Tanks 46: The tall man was so dopey that he could barely raise his arms. | |
| Beat It 37: Smoke Yellowfinger’s Cheroots and die lingering, but dopey. | |
| You Can’t Win (2000) 283: All that day I was only half conscious, dopey. | |
| (con. 1900s–10s) 42nd Parallel in USA (1966) 332: He stumbled along feeling sick and dopy from hunger. | |
| ‘Spring Evening’ in Fellow Countrymen (1937) 171: ‘If you want a real tip, take this. Play Mickey Callagher in the fourth,’ said Jack. ‘That dopey nag!’ said George. | |
| (con. 1914) Soldier Bill 17: The next day he was rather dopey. | |
| Blues for the Prince (1989) 43: He’s still dopey and they’re afraid he might kick off if we try to put the question to him. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bluey & Curley 6 Jan. [synd. cartoon] This dopey drongo. Snoring his head off instead of helping. | |
| (con. 1930s) Lawd Today 158: Ain’t it funny how dopey you feel after you done downed a big meal? | |
| Blood Brothers 30: Stony sat [...] turning to clear his head, still feeling too dopey to stand up. | |
| How to Shoot Friends 57: He was looking very dopey and glassy-eyed to me. |
3. drunk.
| Pink Marsh (1963) 191: I’m so dopey now I can’t finish yo’ shoe. | |
| Salt Lake City (UT) 30 Mar. 4/5: He is [...] moony [...] dopey [...] paralyzed. | |
| Sun (NY) 9 Apr. 10/7: [List provided by a doctor in the alcoholic ward at Bellevue — terms from ambulance drivers] [...] cock-eyed, dopey, drenched, fuzzled. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Death in Ecstasy 274: Rita said it was her opinion the mistress was half-dopey most of her time. | |
| ‘Short Shift Saturday’ in Mann Coast to Coast 227: There was a big, noisy mob in the bar. There were a lot of chaps [...] arguing or singing or just emptying pots and looking dopey. |
4. drugged, sedated; used as a nickname for a habitual drug user.
| in N.Y. Journal 17 Oct. in Stallman (1966) 244: Really, he made it seem probable [...] that Crane’s mind was stupified by opium that night at the Broadway Garden [...] ‘Dopey,’ said the policeman. | |
| ‘The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock’ in Four Million (1915) 196: It’s Dopy Mike [...] He hits the pipe every night. | |
| Rock Is. Argus (IL) 29 Oct. 2/2: The fellow [...] was ‘dopey’ [...] He is also a dope fiend. | |
| Spokane Press (WA) 22 Sept. 7/3: Try the blue label imported by Hi Sam Tong [...] ‘Dopey’ Agnes says it’s the best ever. | |
| (con. 1900) Journal Amer. Instit. of Criminal Law and Criminology X Jan. 62–70: I was dopy when I did this trick. I was just at the end of my rope, and did not care what happened. | |
| Home to Harlem 159: [He] is dopey from them books o’his. | |
| Death in Ecstasy 303: Dopey! [...] For the first time in six months I’m not more or less doped. | |
| Long Good-Bye 175: she had both hands on the gun and with a quick jerk she got it away from him. I was surprised that she had the strength, even dopey as he was. | |
| World’s Toughest Prison 797: dopey – Under the influence of a drug. | |
| in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 172: The street [is] littered with dopy jerkoffs and putzes of every stripe. | |
| Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 258: I was lecherous, debauched, sodden with booze and dopey with drugs. | |
| I, Fatty 48: In my dopey dotage, I realize that she probably looted the thing. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Blood Miracles 36: Ryan’s dopey dad. Giving out to Ryan for being a drug-dealing scumbag while smoking all his weed. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Bloody January 60: Cooper looked sleepy, even a wee bit dopey. |
5. sleepy.
| Sarjint Larry an’ Frinds 65: Old Dad’s sorry his fiddlin’ made you dopey. | |
| Tomorrow’s Another Day 63: ‘It’s late, isn’t it?’ said Mary. [...] ‘I’ll be dopey tomorrow. I need so much sleep’. |