groggery

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English

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Etymology

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From grog +‎ -ery.

Noun

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groggery (plural groggeries)

  1. (archaic) An establishment that sells alcoholic beverages
    • 1873, Thomas Webster, Woman= Man's Equal[1]:
      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, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Part 4.[2]:
      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.
    • 1908, Allen Chapman, Bart Stirling's Road to Success[3]:
      The Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen.
    • 1915, Harold MacGrath, The Voice in the Fog[4]:
      This man Jameson pinches 'em, but his mate follows him up an' has it out with him in a waterfront groggery.
    • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust[5]:
      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.
    • 1925, Various, Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6)[6]:
      I then proceeded to a low groggery in Lincoln Square, and in the space of half an hour drank several glasses of brandy; this in addition to what I had taken before made me very drunk, and I staggered home as well as I could.