beery

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Smelling or tasting like beer

adjective
/ˈbiri/

: cervecero

The beery aroma wafted through the air, making everyone eager for a cold beverage.
beery breath

Examples

The window shades were half drawn against the afternoon sun, filtering an amber, beery light, the same color as the scotch tape that glued the old newspaper clippings and snapshots to his dresser mirror.

Fiction book (1991)
No, it's just a bit beery.

The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)
Technically not very beery, but also not bad.
Burnsley caught a liberal whiff of his beery breath.

Fiction book (2001)
He liked Cal; they had spent several beery, speculative evenings together.

Fiction book (1994)
The air at the party was beery and wildish, and the house itself—its many random rooms and slanting floors—seemed the product of a drunken adolescent mind.

Fiction book (1997)
He walked into the pub, and the beery smell hit him immediately.
After the celebration, her clothes were stained with beery residue from the spilled drinks.

Surface Forms

beery positive

Morphology

beery = beer (transparent) = beer + y

Standard adjectival formation from the noun 'beer' meaning 'having the smell, taste, or character of beer', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word beery comes from beer plus the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'having the quality of', like in smoky or dusty. So something described as beery smells or tastes 'of beer' or reminds you of beer.