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单词 groggery
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groggeryn.

/ˈɡrɒɡəri/
Etymology: < grog n. + -ery suffix.
U.S.
A low drinking-place; a grog-shop.
ΚΠ
1822 J. A. Quitman Let. in J. H. Claiborne Life of Quitman (1860) 71 Consisting of warehouses, low taverns, groggeries, dens of prostitution, and gaming-houses.
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. xxxviii. 190 Wretched looking dwellings, occupied as ‘groggeries’ by free negroes.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. vi. 183 I know a town that's on the chart, that has only a court-house, a groggery, a jail, [etc.].
1857 T. Parker in J. Weiss Life & Corr. T. Parker (1863) I. 344 He has no society except the low Germans who frequent the groggery downstairs.
in combination.1892 A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus II. 127 A groggery keeper..was implicated.
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