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groggery

noun

Etymology

From grog + -ery.

  1. derived from tot
  2. derived from crocum
  3. derived from grog
  4. suffixed as groggery — “grog + ery”

Definitions

  1. An establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.

    • If women had a voice in the making of the laws, how long would the dram-shop and low groggery send out their liquid poison to pollute civilized lands?
    • Dusenheimer, standing in the door of his uninviting groggery, when the trains stopped for water; never received from the traveling public any patronage except facetious remarks upon his personal appearance.
    • The Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen.

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No curated loop yet for groggery. 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