beery

[ beer-ee ]

adjective,beer·i·er, beer·i·est.

of, like, or abounding in beer: a stale, beery smell.
affected by or suggestive of beer: beery exuberance; beery breath.

Origin of beery

First recorded in 1840–50; beer + -y¹

Other words from beery

beer·i·ness, noun

Words Nearby beery

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How to use beery in a sentence

Finally, he waved—a quick flip of his right hand—and the cart wheeled around, the beery bleachers still chanting “A-LI!”
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Sometimes he sings along with the animated bakers and cooks and gas stations at the top of his boyish beery baritone.
Cue for Quiet | Thomas L. Sherred
Falstaff, the beery lout, would be an impossible companion, and Prince Hal a tiresome young cub who wanted a good dressing-down.
The Unveiling of Lhasa | Edmund Candler
The miller hauled his slow-moving team aside, with beery-thick objurgations and apologies.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady | Lucas Malet
By the beery dissipated crowd outside, I say, this obvious fact had been lost sight of.
Days and Nights in London | J. Ewing Ritchie

Now and then she had suddenly landed on a slum, caught sight of, all beery and bloody, through the chink of a black lane.
A Bed of Roses | W. L. George

British Dictionary definitions for beery

beery

/ (ˈbɪərɪ) /

adjectivebeerier or beeriest

smelling or tasting of beer
given to drinking beer

Derived forms of beery

beerily, adverb
beeriness, noun

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