different between drinker vs boozer

English

Etymology

From Middle English drinkere, drynkere, from Old English drincere (“drinker”), from Proto-Germanic *drink?rijaz (“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

• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

drinker (plural drinkers)

1. Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
2. Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
3. A device from which animals can drink.

   a bell drinker

   a nipple drinker

4. (slang) A pub.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• (drunkard): teetotaler, nondrinker; See also Thesaurus:teetotaler

Derived terms

• (drunkard): nondrinker

Translations

Anagrams

• redrink

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dri?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: drin?ker
• Rhymes: -??k?r

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

English

Etymology

From booze +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bu?.z?(?)/
• Rhymes: -u?z?(r)

Noun

boozer (plural boozers)

1. (colloquial) One who drinks habitually; a drunkard.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented, 1963, page 25,

     “Tess is a fine figure o? fun, as I said to myself today when I zeed her vamping round parish with the rest,” observed one of the elderly boozers in an undertone.

   • 1918, Charles Stelzle, Why Prohibition!, 2008, page 49,

     But they have only one insurance rate for ordinary men — drinkers and non-drinkers, and they compel the man who doesn?t booze to make up for the extra amount that the boozer should pay.

   • 2009 November, Neville Franks, The Lost Boy of the Ozarks, Backpacker, page 82,

     Every swig made me more relaxed, and happy, and I was definitely a boozer again, and I wondered why I had ever thought I wasn't a boozer and I took another pull and I was going to clap BC on the back and thank him for being such a good hotel manager, and faithful guide, for being my friend, and then I passed out.

2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A public house, pub.

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3. (Britain, military, obsolete) A World War II fighter radar detector, fitted to British bombers.
4. (Africa) A vehicle equipped with tanks for supplying water to remote locations.
   • 2010 June 8, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2,

     Mr. Mututho: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister should assure the people of Vihiga that they will get a water boozer because the sick people are not party to this complication. Could he assure the people that he can send a boozer in his capacity even if he cannot supply power or a standby generator, so that they can have a small well?

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:boozer.

Synonyms

• (drunkard): See Thesaurus:drunkard
• (public house): See Thesaurus:pub
• (radar detector):
• (water-supply vehicle): bowser, tanker

Translations

See also

• booze

Anagrams

• rebozo