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单词 beery
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beeryadj.

Brit. /ˈbɪəri/, U.S. /ˈbɪri/
Etymology: < beer n.1 + -y suffix1.
Belonging to, or abounding in beer; characterized or influenced by beer; beer-like.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [adjective]
beerish1694
cervisial1791
cerevisious1841
beery1848
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvi. 600 Idlers, playing cards or dominoes on the sloppy, beery tables.
1854 J. R. Planché Once upon Time ii. ii. 37 I'm not jolly—even when I'm beery.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner x. 153 [The kindness] was often of a beery and bungling sort.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 15 The ‘first sprightly running’ of Dryden's vintage was..a little muddy, if not beery.
1887 N.E.D. at Beery Mod. An election of the old beery sort.

Draft additions September 2013

ˈbeerily adv. as if intoxicated by beer; in a beery manner.
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1851 Dublin Univ. Mag. Jan. 14/1 Our perceptions clear with the atmosphere. We think pellucidly at Paris, just as men think ‘beerily’ in Amsterdam or London.
1928 Daily Express 2 Oct. 6 A little group of men and women still lingered outside the locked doors, beerily chewing over the arguments of the evening.
2006 T. Sykes What did I do Last Night? i. 7 ‘How many pints have you had?’ I shouted. ‘Seven,’ he burped beerily.
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