drinker

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)/(UK)
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/ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)/(UK) · /ˈdɹɪŋkɚ/

Definition of drinker

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (agent, form-of)Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
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noun

  1. (agent, form-of)Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
  2. Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
    “a heavy drinker”
    “At a single table a couple of Chinese drinkers looked up incuriously.”
  3. A device from which animals can drink.
    “a bell drinker”
    “a nipple drinker”
  4. (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.”
  5. A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.

name

  1. 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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