groggery

English

Etymology

From grog +‎ -ery.

Noun

groggery (plural groggeries)

1. (archaic) An establishment that sells alcoholic beverages
   • 1873, Thomas Webster, Woman= Man's Equal‎^[1]:

     If women had a voice in the making of the laws, how long would the dram-shop and low groggery send out their liquid poison to pollute civilized lands?

   • 1873, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Part 4.‎^[2]:

     Dusenheimer, standing in the door of his uninviting groggery, when the trains stopped for water; never received from the traveling public any patronage except facetious remarks upon his personal appearance.

   • 1908, Allen Chapman, Bart Stirling's Road to Success‎^[3]:

     The Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen.

   • 1915, Harold MacGrath, The Voice in the Fog‎^[4]:

     This man Jameson pinches 'em, but his mate follows him up an' has it out with him in a waterfront groggery.

   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust‎^[5]:

     An instant later, an empty beer-bottle dropped with a crash in the tonneau, and Donald, turning, beheld in the door of a Darrow groggery one of the Greek fishermen He had dispossessed.

   • 1925, Various, Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6)‎^[6]:

     I then proceeded to a low groggery in Lincoln Square, and in the space of half an hour drank several glasses of brandy; this in addition to what I had taken before made me very drunk, and I staggered home as well as I could.