growlery

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• about 2 years ago super-logos said
  A well-known drinkery down the street where all the disgruntled employees who did not get a raise go to gripe.
• almost 2 years ago hober said
  A retreat for times of ill humour. This term has largely become obsolete, which is strange, given that so many people seem to have a place to go when they are in a bad mood - a place to be alone an...

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• The growlery is the best – used room in the house.
  —Bleak House
• Lady Tremaine received him in what she called her growlery, with cordiality.
  —Home Again
• At length, one day, while sitting in his "growlery," as the ladies called it, in the lower story, his attention was aroused by a clatter on the stairs, and looking out into the entry he saw a party of carpenters and painters who had been employed upon the parlor-floor, beating a precipitate retreat toward the front door.
  —The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages

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