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groggery

groggery noun: an establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.

Noun

groggery (plural groggeries)

  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?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

pluralgroggeries

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

  1. Grogg
  2. grogged
  3. grogger
  4. groggeries
  5. groggers
  6. groggery
  7. groggier
  8. groggiest
  9. groggified
  10. groggily
  11. grogginess

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