喝的人
-er 長成人的那一邊；差別只在前面有沒有把飲料講出來。
noun · B2
Someone who regularly drinks alcohol; the word in front of it, such as heavy or light, is what shows how much.
喝酒的人
核心畫面
You can think of drinker as simply the one that drinks: drink plus -er. English lets that ending grow two ways, into a person or into a tool, and this word does both. On the person side there is one extra habit English has added: if no drink is named, listeners hear alcohol; name the drink and that reading disappears.
drinker 可以想成「喝的那一個」：drink 加上 -er。英文的 -er 有兩種長法，一種長成人，一種長成器…更多收起
drinker 可以想成「喝的那一個」：drink 加上 -er。英文的 -er 有兩種長法，一種長成人，一種長成器具，這個字兩種都有。長成人的時候還多了一個英文自己加上去的習慣：前面沒有講飲料，聽的人就當作是酒；一旦把飲料講出來，那層預設就消失了。From the word’s history
Drinker comes from Old English drincere, drink plus the agent ending -er, and the same formation shows up in Dutch drinker and German Trinker.
drinker 來自古英語 drincere，也就是 drink 加上表示「做這件事的人」的 -er。荷蘭文 drinker、德文 Trinker 都是同一個構造，可見這個組合很老。
Wiktionary entry 'drinker' (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1164948618): 'From Middle English drinkere, from Old English drincere, equivalent to drink + -er.'
Two branches
喝水的器具
-er 長成東西的那一邊：同樣是「跟喝有關的那一個」，只是這次指的是裝置，不是人。
noun · B2
A container or fitting that animals drink water from, used on farms and in cages for chickens, rabbits and other animals.
飲水器
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Drinkername
- 1
A surname
drinkernoun/ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)/
- 1
Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
- a heavy drinker
- At a single table a couple of Chinese drinkers looked up incuriously.
- 2
A device from which animals can drink.
- a bell drinker
- a nipple drinker
- 3
slangA pub.
- Antisocial behaviour? What the hell was that? In my day antisocial meant staying in to watch the footy on Scotsport instead of going down the drinker.
- 4
A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。