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groggery†
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a low-class tavern.
See: grocery store(def. 2)
Quotations
1860
The case was clearly proved by a Frenchman, who had purchased over a pint of bad whiskey at Herveyworth's unlicensed groggery, and "consumed it on the premises."
1894
He then asked me to come with him to the little groggery he was staying at, and have a drink, I wondering if he would pay me.
1909
It is said the surveying party were too much inclined to hang around some low groggeries on the Penetanguishene Road, and did their work badly.