groggery

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14
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16
Letters
8

Definition of groggery

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (dated)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.”
    “This man Jameson pinches 'em, but his mate follows him up an' has it out with him in a waterfront groggery.”
    “An instant later, an empty beer-bottle dropped with a crash in the tonneau, and Donald, turning, beheld in the door of a Darrow groggery one of the Greek fishermen He had dispossessed.”

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Etymology

From grog + -ery.

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