• Beerily

    Origin

    beery + -ly

    Full definition of beerily

    Adverb

    beerily

    1. (informal) in a beery manner; while smelling of, or under the influence of, beer
      • 1876 Richard Whiteing - The DemocracyThe politically ambitious and the beerily dissolute artisan of whom you read in the newspapers by no means constitute all the odder varieties of the species.
      • 1915 Sax Rohmer - The Yellow ClawHamper bent to Dunbar and whispered, beerily, in his ear . . .
      • 1988 Dan W Smith - Silver Spoon MurdersHe belched beerily. Well, eating would have to wait.
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