Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a drinking place; cite 1870 drew knowing comments from papers in Aus. and US.

1870		Aus. Jrnl Mar. 430/2: A young mother’s little poem upon ‘Baby’ is a gem. The third stanza is striking: Tizzery izzery boozery boo / No baby so sweet and so pitty as oo.
1880		Jamestown Alert (ND) 14 Sept. 1/3: These very identical kickers are upholding and patronizing a boozery of their own.
1879		W. Australian (Perth) 14 Mar. 3/1: These unlicensed ‘boozeries’ will dwindle away [...] the licensed houses are open to public supervision.
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1902		Sun. Times (Perth) 3 Aug. 4/6: Luring him to an adjacent boozery [the bobby] handed him over to some pals.
1905		Sun. Times (Perth) 24 Dec. 1/1: Pingelly yearns for the establishment of a new hotel [but] the cold water faction says that one boosery is enough .
1916		DN V 10: Their husbands loafed and lushed in the boozeries.
1917		Sun. Times (Perth) 26 Aug. 85/7: Charlie was the proprietor of one of Stirling-street’s best-known boozeries.
1918		Wash. Herald (DC) 25 July 5/3: The shutting down of the Back River and Curtis Bay boozeries [...] as a war measure.
1921		Mencken Amer. Lang. (2nd edn) 186: Printery (for printing-office) appeared very early, and in late years it has been reinforced by many analogues, e.g., beanery, bootery, boozery, toggery.
1924		Sun. Times (Perth) 2 Nov. 11/1-2: The alleged skew-wiff shicker house [...] the Government boozery.
1933		Sun. Times (Perth) 19 Mar. 48/8: The boozery was empty of M.L.A. supporters.
1934		Weseen Dict. Amer. Sl. 273: [Drinking] Boozery – A place where liquor is sold, especially a place where it is sold illegally.
1941		Camperdown Chron. (Vic.) 9 Dec. : Stan Lee, milk boozery proprietor, could not give any lawful excuse for keeping his bar open after hours.
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
1996		Blacklisted Journal 1 Feb. 🌐 At the building’s left, the steps now lead down to what used to be a boozery called ‘The Scrap Bar.’.
2002		bar review at sanantonio.citysearch.com 🌐 Pretty cool lil boozery.