2. Verb. (British) To drink (alcohol). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bevvy
1. an alcoholic drink [n BEVVIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bevvy
Literary usage of Bevvy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rauch's Pennsylvania Dutch Hand-book: A Book for Instruction. Rauch's by Edward H. Rauch (1879)
"Pit and bevvy disagree politically, and this is the way he attempts to get ahead
of his better half, being another extract from THE CARBON COUNTY DEMOCRAT ..."
2. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, Francis James Child, William Salesbury, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Alexander Barclay, Johan Winkler (1871)
"De bevvy hut gedu das weil ich ... Bans fun sella Breastpins hut dor bevvy about
goot aw-g'- ..."
3. Sermons by Thomas Gisborne (1804)
"as an bevvy burthen they are .too heavy for them. 'They are feeble and fore
broken ; tbey roar by ..."
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