drinkerd
English
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editdrinkerd (plural drinkerds)
- One who routinely drinks alcoholic beverages socially, but who is not a drunkard.
- 1959, Fantastic Universe: Science Fiction - Volume 11, Issues 1-6, page 95:
- 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.
- 1982, Edwin Felix Gray Haig, The Nigerian Field - Volume 47, page 7:
- It is, however, to be stressed that a comrad is never overwell; we are drinkerds, not drunkards.
- 1984, Amos Tutuola, The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town, page 7:
- I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age.
- 1991, Indian Association for English Studies, Indian English Literature Since Independence, page 148:
- We need drinkerds, we sit for lunch when leaves are laid, we offer milk and banana libations to our theriomorphic gods.