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.
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.'
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。