drinker

From Middle English drinkere, drynkere, from Old English drincere (“drinker”), from Proto-Germanic *drinkārijaz (“drinker”), equivalent to drink +‎ -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drinker (“drinker”), West Frisian drinker (“drinker”), Dutch drinker (“drinker”), German Low German Drinker (“drinker”), German Trinker (“drinker”), Danish drikker (“drinker”), Swedish drickare, drinkare (“drinker”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɪŋkɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)

drinker (plural drinkers)

1. Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
2. Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.

   a heavy drinker^{[note 1]}

   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 280:

     At a single table a couple of Chinese drinkers looked up incuriously.

3. A device from which animals can drink.

   a bell drinker

   a nipple drinker

4. (slang) A pub.
   • 2011, Tony Black, Gutted, page 88:

     Antisocial behaviour? What the hell was that? In my day antisocial meant staying in to watch the footy on Scotsport instead of going down the drinker.

• (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
• (pub): boozer, local, watering hole; See also Thesaurus:pub

• (antonym(s) of “drunkard”): teetotaler, nondrinker; See also Thesaurus:teetotaler

• redrink

From Middle Dutch drinkere. Equivalent to drinken +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdriŋ.kər/

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• Hyphenation: drin‧ker
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkər

drinker m (plural drinkers)

1. one who drinks
2. a regular drinker of alcoholic beverages
3. (obsolete) a smoker

• bierdrinker
• brandewijndrinker
• tabakdrinker
• wijndrinker

• Negerhollands: drinker