"drinkerd" meaning in All languages combined

See drinkerd on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: drinkerds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} drinkerd (plural drinkerds)
  1. One who routinely drinks alcoholic beverages socially, but who is not a drunkard. Synonyms: drinkard
    Sense id: en-drinkerd-en-noun-LpKSzJ2j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1959, Fantastic Universe: Science Fiction - Volume 11, Issues 1-6, page 95:",
          "text": "He bought it because he had been thirsty, not because he wanted to be social. Therefore he felt immensely superior to all the fooderds and drinkerds around him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, Edwin Felix Gray Haig, The Nigerian Field - Volume 47, page 7:",
          "text": "It is, however, to be stressed that a comrad is never overwell; we are drinkerds, not drunkards.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Amos Tutuola, The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town, page 7:",
          "text": "I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Indian Association for English Studies, Indian English Literature Since Independence, page 148:",
          "text": "We need drinkerds, we sit for lunch when leaves are laid, we offer milk and banana libations to our theriomorphic gods.",
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        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ],
        [
          "alcoholic",
          "alcoholic"
        ],
        [
          "beverage",
          "beverage"
        ],
        [
          "socially",
          "socially"
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          "drunkard",
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          "alcoholic",
          "alcoholic"
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