groggery

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groggery

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From grog + -ery.

noun groggeries

dated An establishment that sells alcoholic beverages. If women had a voice in the making of the laws, how long would the dram-shop and low groggery send out their liquid poison to pollute civilized lands?
Similar: grog shanty

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@misc{groggery_2026,
  title = {groggery},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/groggery},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}