核心畫面

One way to hold this word: take booze, the informal word for alcohol, and hang -er on the end. English does that twice here, and gets two different answers. Hang it on the person and you get the one who drinks. Hang it on the place and you get the room where the drinking happens. Same short, casual word, pointing once at a man and once at a building — which one you are looking at is decided by the country the speaker comes from.

可以想成把 booze(口語的「酒」)後面接上 -er,然後這個 -er 指了兩次不同的東西。指在人身上,就是「喝的更多收起可以想成把 booze(口語的「酒」)後面接上 -er,然後這個 -er 指了兩次不同的東西。指在人身上,就是「喝的那個人」。指在地方上,就是「喝的那個地方」。同一個輕鬆的口語字,一次指向一個人,一次指向一棟房子。要分辨看到的是哪一個,最快的線索不是句子,而是說話的人來自哪裡。

From the word’s history

The packet source derives boozer from booze plus -er as an agent noun (the drinker), or from the same base plus -er as a relational noun for the pub.

來源資料直接說明了這兩條路:boozer 是 booze 加上表示「做這件事的人」的 -er,或者同一個底加上表示關聯的 -er 來指那個地方。這也解釋了為什麼一個字會同時是人和場所,兩邊都從「酒」這個底長出來。

Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet: From booze + -er (agent noun suffix) or (pub) + -er (relational noun suffix).

Two branches

喝酒的那個人

-er 指人的那一條路。這是美式英文裡幾乎唯一會遇到的意思。

noun · C1

An informal and unkind word for someone who drinks a lot of alcohol and drinks often.

酒鬼

喝酒的那個地方

-er 指地方的那一條路。這條路只活在英國、澳洲、紐西蘭的口語裡。

noun · C1

In British, Australian and New Zealand English, an informal word for a pub — the ordinary local place where people go to drink and talk.

(英式口語)小酒館