drinker
/ˈdɹɪŋkɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.18 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
noun
noun
A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.
name
A surname
Example Sentences
- "a heavy drinker"
- "At a single table a couple of Chinese drinkers looked up incuriously."
- "a bell drinker"
- "a nipple drinker"
- "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."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɹɪŋkɚ/
- British English: /ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)/