Drunkardry
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being a drunkard. rare, uncountable
"When the hour of departure arrives, you see the pavement and carriage way of Bow Street studded with a choice assemblage of the raggedry, ruffianry, felonry, misery, drunkardry, and drabbery, whom the infamous hundred of Drury [Lane], and the scarcely less infamous tithing of Covent [Garden], have cast out into a thoroughfare which, two hours hence, will be re-echoing to the wheels of carriages bearing noble lords and ladies to listen to the delicious [Angiolina] Bosio in the “Traviata,” or the enchanting notes of [Enrico] Tamberlik in “Otello.”"
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More examples"When the hour of departure arrives, you see the pavement and carriage way of Bow Street studded with a choice assemblage of the raggedry, ruffianry, felonry, misery, drunkardry, and drabbery, whom the infamous hundred of Drury [Lane], and the scarcely less infamous tithing of Covent [Garden], have cast out into a thoroughfare which, two hours hence, will be re-echoing to the wheels of carriages bearing noble lords and ladies to listen to the delicious [Angiolina] Bosio in the “Traviata,” or the enchanting notes of [Enrico] Tamberlik in “Otello.”"
Etymology
From drunkard + -ry.
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