drinkerd

English

Alternative forms

• drinkard

Noun

drinkerd (plural drinkerds)

1. One who routinely drinks alcoholic beverages socially, but who is not a drunkard.
   • 1959, Fantastic Universe: Science Fiction - Volume 11, Issues 1-6, page 95:

     He bought it because he had been thirsty, not because he wanted to be social. Therefore he felt immensely superior to all the fooderds and drinkerds around him.

   • 1982, Edwin Felix Gray Haig, The Nigerian Field - Volume 47, page 7:

     It is, however, to be stressed that a comrad is never overwell; we are drinkerds, not drunkards.

   • 1984, Amos Tutuola, The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town, page 7:

     I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age.

   • 1991, Indian Association for English Studies, Indian English Literature Since Independence, page 148:

     We need drinkerds, we sit for lunch when leaves are laid, we offer milk and banana libations to our theriomorphic gods.