growlery

English

Noun

growlery (plural growleries)

  1. Alternative form of Growlery
    • 1916, Our Young People, page 30:
      I dare say you have never heard of a growlery. It's a funny word, but it is a very useful, helpful sort of a place.
    • 2014, Rachel Holmes, Eleanor Marx: A Life, →ISBN:
      Tussy wrote to Lizzy, knowing that Engels would read her the letters in his growlery – as he described his study-sitting room – presided over by the stuffed Right Honourable in his glass case.
    • 2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 103:
      'Bearing up, I suppose, Teddy said, although I didn't actually see her. We're at war then? 'I'm afraid so. Come into the growlery, Ted, and have a drink with me.
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