drinker

English

Etymology

From Middle English drinkere, drynkere, from Old English 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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɪŋkɚ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

• B-drinker
• binge drinker
• drinker moth
• non-drinker
• nondrinker
• social drinker
• two-fisted drinker
• water drinker

 

Translations

one that drinks

• Arabic: شَارِب m (šārib)
• Azerbaijani: içən
• Breton: ever (br) m
• Bulgarian: пия́ч (bg) m (pijáč)
• Catalan: bevedor m, bevedora f
• French: buveur (fr) m, buveuse (fr) f
• German: Trinker (de) m, Trinkerin (de) f
• Greek: πότης (el) m (pótis)

  Ancient: πότης m (pótēs)

• Japanese: 飲む人 (のむひと, nomu hito)
• Latin: pōtor m, pōtrix f
• Manx: iuder m
• Norman: béveux m, b'veux m
• Portuguese: bebedor m, bebedora f
• Romanian: băutor (ro) m, băutoare (ro) f
• Russian: пью́щий (ru) m (pʹjúščij), пью́щая (ru) f (pʹjúščaja)
• Spanish: bebedor (es) m, bebedora (es) f
• Swahili: mnywaji
• Tocharian B: yokänta
• Turkish: içici (tr)

regular drinker of alcohol

• Azerbaijani: içkiçi, içici
• Belarusian: п'я́ніца m or f (pʺjánica)
• Breton: ever (br) m, lonker (br) m
• Bulgarian: пия́ница (bg) m (pijánica)
• Catalan: bevedor m, bevedora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酒徒 (zh) (jiǔtú), 酒鬼 (zh) (jiǔguǐ), 醉鬼 (zh) (zuìguǐ), 酒客 (zh) (jiǔkè)

• Czech: pijan (cs) m
• French: buveur (fr) m, buveuse (fr) f
• German: Trinker (de) m, Trinkerin (de) f, Gewohnheitstrinker (de) m, Gewohnheitstrinkerin (de) f
• Greek: πότης (el) m (pótis)

  Ancient: πότης m (pótēs)

• Hebrew: שתיין m (shatyan), שתיינית f (shatianyt)
• Indonesian: peminum (id)
• Japanese: 酒飲み (さけのみ, sakenomi), 酒好き (ja) (さけずき, sakezuki)
• Manx: iuder m
• Norman: béveux m, b'veux m
• Portuguese: bebedor m, bebedora f
• Russian: пья́ница (ru) m or f (pʹjánica), пью́щий (ru) m (pʹjúščij), пью́щая (ru) f (pʹjúščaja)
• Spanish: bebedor (es) m, bebedora (es) f
• Telugu: త్రాగుబోతు (trāgubōtu)
• Turkish: içici (tr)
• Ukrainian: п'я́ниця m or f (pʺjánycja)
• Yoruba: ọ̀mùtí

a device

• Catalan: abeurador (ca) m, bevedor m
• Turkish: sulak (tr)

Anagrams

• redrink

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch drinkere. Equivalent to drinken +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdriŋ.kər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: drin‧ker
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkər

Noun

drinker m (plural drinkers)

1. one who drinks
2. a regular drinker of alcoholic beverages
3. (obsolete) a smoker

Derived terms

• bierdrinker
• brandewijndrinker
• tabakdrinker
• wijndrinker

Descendants

• Negerhollands: drinker