groggery U.S.
(ˈgrɒgərɪ)
[f. grog n. + -ery.]
A low drinking-place; a grog-shop.
| 1822 J. A. Quitman Let. in J. H. Claiborne Life of Quitman (1860) 71 Consisting of warehouses, low taverns, groggeries, dens of prostitution, and gaming-houses. 1835 J. H. Ingraham South West II. 190 Wretched looking dwellings, occupied as ‘groggeries’ by free negroes. 1855 Haliburton Nat. & Hum. Nat. I. vi. 183, I know a town that's on the chart, that has only a court-house, a groggery, a jail, [etc.]. 1857 T. Parker in J. Weiss Life I. 344 He has no society except the low Germans who frequent the groggery downstairs. |
| Comb. 1892 A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus (Ohio) II. 127 A groggery keeper..was implicated. |