Definition of "drunky"

Inside were stretchers and appliances for removing prisoners, and, that the alarm might not be fruitless, the mayor directed the police to pick up a "drunky" whom we had passed on the way, amusing a group of children […]

1882, W. H. Russell, Hesperothen: Notes from the West, volume 1

For so long as I can remember, my old man, he was a drunky and a bully. So many times I have seen him beat my ma without mercy, with a buckle belt or his fists.

2001, Fritz Pointer, A Passion to Liberate: La Guma's South Africa, Images of District Six