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drinker

noun
/ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)/UK/ˈdɹɪŋkɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English drinkere, drynkere, from Old English drincere (“drinker”), from Proto-Germanic *drinkārijaz (“drinker”), equivalent to drink + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drinker (“drinker”), West Frisian drinker (“drinker”), Dutch drinker (“drinker”), German Low German Drinker (“drinker”), German Trinker (“drinker”), Danish drikker (“drinker”), Swedish drickare, drinkare (“drinker”).

  1. inherited from *drinkārijaz✻ — “drinker”
  2. inherited from drincere — “drinker”
  3. inherited from drinkere

Definitions

  1. Agent noun of drink

    Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.

  2. Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.

    • a heavy drinker
    • At a single table a couple of Chinese drinkers looked up incuriously.

  3. A device from which animals can drink.

    • a bell drinker
    • a nipple drinker
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A pub.

      • Antisocial behaviour? What the hell was that? In my day antisocial meant staying in to watch the footy on Scotsport instead of going down the drinker.

    2. A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.

    3. A surname

The neighborhood

Derived

B-drinker, binge drinker, drinker moth, milk drinker, non-drinker, nondrinker, social drinker, two-fisted drinker, water drinker

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for drinker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA