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groggery en · NOUN

Etymology

From grog + -ery.

Meanings

1. (dated) An establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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. 1925, Various, Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6):
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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.:

Forms

Synonyms

grog shanty