"drinkerd" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: drinkerds [plural], drinkard [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} drinkerd (plural drinkerds)
  1. One who routinely drinks alcoholic beverages socially, but who is not a drunkard.
    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:",
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        {
          "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.",
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        },
        {
          "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"
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          "ref": "1991, Indian Association for English Studies, Indian English Literature Since Independence, page 148:",
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