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drunkery en · NOUN

Etymology

From drunk + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) Drunkenness.
    • The State having the right to destroy the drunkery, the question for you, citizens of Iowa, to determine is would such action be right and just? quoted in 1887, John Bird Finch, The People Versus the Liquor Traffic (page 111)