drinker
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of drinker
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (agent, form-of)Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
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noun
- (agent, form-of)Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
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Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
“a heavy drinker”
“At a single table a couple of Chinese drinkers looked up incuriously.”
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A device from which animals can drink.
“a bell drinker”
“a nipple drinker”
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(slang)A pub.
“Antisocial behaviour? What the hell was that? In my day antisocial meant staying in to watch the footy on Scotsport instead of going down the drinker.”
- A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.
name
- A surname
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English drinkere, drynkere, from Old English drincere (“drinker”), from Proto-Germanic *drinkārijaz (“drinker”), equivalent to drink + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drinker (“drinker”), West Frisian drinker (“drinker”), Dutch drinker (“drinker”), German Low German Drinker (“drinker”), German Trinker (“drinker”), Danish drikker (“drinker”), Swedish drickare, drinkare (“drinker”).
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