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語源

From 中期英語 drinkere, drynkere, from 古期英語 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”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈdɹɪŋkɚ/
• 韻: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)

名詞

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

   • 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.

5. A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.

同意語

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

反意語

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

派生語

Notes

アナグラム

• redrink