Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove: Located 9.8 km (6.1 mi) north of St., the word "logy", also sometime spelt "loggy" is a rather odd word.

According to the DNLE, as a "noun" it refers to a fish of inferior quality, or a large cod-fish (approx. five feet long at maturity) that lives on the bottom of the sea.

One might easily assume that the town of Logy Bay would be named for the fish, but such is thought not to be the case.

The other meanings of "logy" are quite different. As a "adjective" it refers to "persons (animals, fish, etc.) that are heavy, sluggish, or in poor condition.

It is unfortunately, often applied "in reproachful metaphor to a dull slow person". If one says they are feeling 'right logy' they are feeling torpid, sluggish, or lazy.

If used to describe a ship, as in a 'logy vessel', it refers to one that is "slow-moving, deep-laden and heavy in sailing".

If one uses it to refer to the weather, as in a 'logy day', it is a day that is either heavy (with moisture) or oppressively hot.

As a place name, as in Logy or Lugy Bay (as it appeared in 1675), believed (at least according to ENL contributors), to refer to a combination of the noun and the adjective, that is a cod fish that has become heavy and sluggish from eating small fish known as capelin.

Hamilton, (1998) however, suggested, citing the work of E. R. Seary, that since the name appears on carly maps as Lugy Bay, that it probably comes from the Cornish expression, lugh-ago, referring to a "cave calf or seal".

Now known as Logy-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, this town was established in 1986 with the amalgamation of the three nearby communities that were served by the Roman Catholic parish of St. Francis of Assisi.

Because of its proximity to St. John's the population of the three communities continues to grow. In 2016 there were 2,221 residents, a 5.9% over the earlier census of 2011, when 2,098 were enumerated.

Used with permission from "Uncovering the Origin of 1001 Unique Place Names in Newfoundland and Labrador" 2021 Jennifer Leigh Hill

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