growlery
English edit
Noun edit
growlery (plural growleries)
- Alternative form of Growlery
- 1916, Our Young People, page 30:
- I dare say you have never heard of a growlery. It's a funny word, but it is a very useful, helpful sort of a place.
- 2014, Rachel Holmes, Eleanor Marx: A Life, →ISBN:
- Tussy wrote to Lizzy, knowing that Engels would read her the letters in his growlery – as he described his study-sitting room – presided over by the stuffed Right Honourable in his glass case.
- 2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 103:
- 'Bearing up, I suppose, Teddy said, although I didn't actually see her. We're at war then? 'I'm afraid so. Come into the growlery, Ted, and have a drink with me.