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1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night E ij The hungrie druggier..agrees to anything, and to Court he goes.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O4 Another craftie mortring Druggeir.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. vii. sig. K4 He owes this honest Drugger, here, seuen pound..[for] Tabacco. View more context for this quotation

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. iv. sig. B9 Then follows a writ to his drugger in a strange tongue.

1845 S. Naylor Reynard Introd. 42 The prelate, the lawyer, the drugger, are here fitted to their hearts' content.

1869 Harper's Mag. June 159/2 The little boy proceeded to the drugger's.

1883 G. W. Peck Peck's Bad Boy & his Pa xxiv. 123 Oh, darn the drug-store... I have dissolved with the drugger. I have resigned.

1914 Midland Druggist & Pharmaceut. Rev. 48 305/1 Those in it [sc. the Pharmacœpia] may be looked upon as drugs..whose action can be fairly well prophesied when they are used, skillfully or unskillfully by an unqualified drugger.

1836 E. Howard Rattlin l I became..lethargically drowsy... They are skilful druggers.

1893 Daily News 16 Dec. 5/1 The child was observed by this persistent drugger..to be ‘red all over’.

1904 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) VIII. 315/2 He was..a confirmed self-drugger, and deceived the attending physician throughout the whole history of his illness, denying that he had taken the oil.

2001 N. Atanasoff in P. Skrebels & S. van der Hoeven For all Time? (2004) 61 Or art thou but a drugger of the mind, a mull creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed bong?

1870 T. K. Chambers Indigestions (3rd Amer. ed.) ii. 68 Such patients..will become chronic druggers for life.

1904 Zion's Herald 5 Oct. 1271/3 A man is certainly a ‘fool trader’ when he trades strength, health, money, and the good things that come with power, for the half-asleep condition of the ‘drugger’.

1931 P. MacDonald Persons Unknown vii. 128 Suppose he'd been a man who was a secret drinker or drugger.

1941 J. Cary Herself Surprised lxxxi. 204 When first I knew Lizzie I thought she was a drugger or a drinker or worse.

1968 H. R. F. Keating Inspector Ghote hunts Peacock vii. 98 Your precious Peacock..was nothing but a low-down little drugger... She just drugged to make herself lower than she was.

2003 P. Wolf in M. Jagger et al. According to Rolling Stones viii. 225 Mick was not a very good drinker and drugger, and..decided to quit or cut down his intake.