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Can anybody please tell me what was the Origin behind the word ''Bevie'' as in going for a Bevie or
going for a drink (alcoholic).
going for a drink (alcoholic).
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I am told that many years ago there was a brewery called Beverlys so pubs
(up north I believe) used to sell ''Beverlys'' ales this then got shortened hence
the saying ''Going for a Bevie'' how true this is I couldn't say, it is just what I heard
as an answer to a pub quiz question
I am told that many years ago there was a brewery called Beverlys so pubs
(up north I believe) used to sell ''Beverlys'' ales this then got shortened hence
the saying ''Going for a Bevie'' how true this is I couldn't say, it is just what I heard
as an answer to a pub quiz question
The Oxford English Dictionary lists bevvy as (quote) "a drink, especially beer". It is definitely an abbreviation of beverage rather than Beverlys. Whilst beverage clearly CAN mean other liquids, it is almost invariably nowadays a reference to alcohol. No one has ever used the adjective, bevvied, to refer to someone who has had a surfeit of tea!
There WAS a Beverley Brothers' brewery in Wakefield from the 1860s. However, The Oxford English Dictionary - the 'bible' of English word origins and history - says nothing whatever about it in its etymology of the word bevvy. It does though, as already outlined, say, "from bev(erage plus y.)"
I suspect that Sprayer's pub quiz happened in Yorkshire or had a Yorkshireman as a quizmaster!
Sorry, mate!
I suspect that Sprayer's pub quiz happened in Yorkshire or had a Yorkshireman as a quizmaster!
Sorry, mate!