a. [f. as prec. + -Y1.] Belonging to, or abounding in beer; characterized or influenced by beer; beer-like.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., 67. [The kindness] was often of a beery and bungling sort.
1870. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 15. The ‘first sprightly running’ of Dryden’s vintage was … a little muddy, if not beery.
Mod. An election of the old beery sort.
