drinkerd

plural drinkerds · alternative drinkard

1. One who routinely drinks alcoholic beverages socially, but who is not a drunkard.

   I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age.

   1984, Amos Tutuola, The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town, page 7

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   He bought it because he had been thirsty, not because he wanted to be social. Therefore he felt immensely superior to all the fooderds and drinkerds around him.

   1959, Fantastic Universe: Science Fiction - Volume 11, Issues 1-6, page 95

   It is, however, to be stressed that a comrad is never overwell; we are drinkerds, not drunkards.

   1982, Edwin Felix Gray Haig, The Nigerian Field - Volume 47, page 7

   We need drinkerds, we sit for lunch when leaves are laid, we offer milk and banana libations to our theriomorphic gods.

   1991, Indian Association for English Studies, Indian English Literature Since Independence, page 148