beery

American  

[beer-ee] / ˈbɪər i /

adjective

beerier, beeriest

1. of, like, or abounding in beer.

   a stale, beery smell.

2. affected by or suggestive of beer.

   beery exuberance; beery breath.

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beery British  

/ ˈbɪərɪ /

adjective

1. smelling or tasting of beer

2. given to drinking beer

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Other Word Forms

• beerily adverb
• beeriness noun

Etymology

Origin of beery

First recorded in 1840–50; beer + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Bitterness in the right place, with a full beery back.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023

At the novel’s heart are two fictional characters, Ross Weatherall and Allie O’Connor, who briefly met as teenagers at a beery “Bush Bash” in Lubbock, Texas, in 1978.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2019

In the background, as if in some Thornton Wilder play, was the Rose Bowl, in the beery glow of a California fall.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2018

Everyone I spoke to about Matthew Woods and his beery late-night Facebook posts asked versions of the same question: since when did making sick jokes become a crime?

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012

He heard loud, wild peals of derisive laughter crashing all about him and caught blurred glimpses of wicked, beery faces smirking far back inside the bushes and high overhead in the foliage of the trees.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller