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beery

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beer·y  (bîr)
adj. beer·i·er, beer·i·est
1. Smelling or tasting of beer: beery breath.
2. Affected or produced by beer: beery humor.
beery [ˈbɪərɪ]
adj beerier, beeriest
1. smelling or tasting of beer
2. given to drinking beer
beerily  adv
beeriness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.beery - smelling of beer
drunk, inebriated, intoxicated - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"
Translations
beery [ˈbɪərɪ] ADJ [smell] → a cerveza; [person] → muy aficionado a la cerveza; [party] → donde se bebe mucha cerveza
it was a beery affair → allí se bebió una barbaridad
beery
adj → Bier-; person → mit einer Bierfahne (inf); (= tipsy) → bierselig; face → biergerötet; to have beery breath, to smell beery → eine Bierfahne haben (inf), → nach Bier riechen


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With their muscles and their beery good temper, they were not the worst of undertakers for a house which had always been human, and had not mistaken culture for an end.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
Conspicuous among these latter, like an animated bit of the spiked wall of Newgate, Jerry stood: aiming at the prisoner the beery breath of a whet he had taken as he came along, and discharging it to mingle with the waves of other beer, and gin, and tea, and coffee, and what not, that flowed at him, and already broke upon the great windows behind him in an impure mist and rain.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
The relations between Durdles and Deputy are of a capricious kind; for, on Durdles's turning himself about with the slow gravity of beery suddenness, Deputy makes a pretty wide circuit into the road and stands on the defensive.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
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