groggery
groggery noun: an establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.
Noun
groggery (plural groggeries)
- 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?1873, Thomas Webster, Woman= Man's Equal
- 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.1873, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Part 4.
- Synonyms:
- grog shanty
groggery meaning in Bengali
groggery in Bengali
- নিম্নমানের সরাইখানা, মদের দোকান
Examples of groggery in a sentence
- The Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen.1908, Allen Chapman, Bart Stirling's Road to Success:
- This man Jameson pinches 'em, but his mate follows him up an' has it out with him in a waterfront groggery.1915, Harold MacGrath, The Voice in the Fog:
- 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.1920, Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust:
Synonyms of groggery
Forms of groggery
| plural | groggeries |
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Origin of groggery
From grog + -ery.
Questions about groggery
- What does groggery mean?
- Groggery means an establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.
- What is groggery in Bengali?
- Groggery in Bengali is নিম্নমানের সরাইখানা, মদের দোকান. See Groggery meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use groggery in a sentence?
- The Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen.
- What part of speech is groggery?
- Groggery is a noun.
- What is the plural of groggery?
- The plural of groggery is groggeries.
Words near groggery in the dictionary
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