groggery
noun
a slightly disreputable barroom.
groggeries
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pluralof groggery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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As the sun ran for the west, rowdy songs started up in the taverns and groggeries.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
They declare that they speak the truth, and the news of dog-politics lately vouchsafed to me in groggeries incline me to believe—but I won't.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
The narrow crooked streets of the Five Points were lit with gas that shone dimly through the grimy panes of the lamp posts or through the open doors of groggeries and fetid shops.
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
What he saw after a dozen visits to as many different groggeries added fuel to the flame of indignation that burned already hot in him.
From The Crucifixion of Philip Strong by Charles Monroe Sheldon
Of the groggeries of Limerick and of the poison vended in them, I will forbear to discourse, for my business just now is with the country rather than with the town.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
