单词 | groggery |
释义 | groggeryn. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < |
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