beery

American  

[beer-ee] / ˈbɪər i /

adjective

beerier, beeriest

1. of, like, or abounding in beer.

   a stale, beery smell.

2. affected by or suggestive of beer.

   beery exuberance; beery breath.

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beery British  

/ ˈbɪərɪ /

adjective

1. smelling or tasting of beer

2. given to drinking beer

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• beeriness
  noun
• beerily
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of beery

First recorded in 1840–50; beer + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Just off Australia’s largest container port lies a sickle-shaped neighborhood with a scent so distinctive that passing taxi drivers will sometimes roll down their windows for a whiff of the rich and unmistakably beery aroma.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2023

Having a higher seed come 2,094 miles from home to face a lower seed 249 miles from home can seem raffish and beery.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2022

At the novel’s heart are two fictional characters, Ross Weatherall and Allie O’Connor, who briefly met as teenagers at a beery “Bush Bash” in Lubbock, Texas, in 1978.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2019

On one side, the apple-cheeked fans of Boston, bundled and beery.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2018

He heard loud, wild peals of derisive laughter crashing all about him and caught blurred glimpses of wicked, beery faces smirking far back inside the bushes and high overhead in the foliage of the trees.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller