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bevvy

/ˈbɛvi/

bevvy is the clipping of beverage.

Meaning of beverage

Noun

beverage (countable and uncountable, plural beverages)

  1. A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, often excluding water.
    • carbonated beverage
    Synonyms:
    drink
  2. (UK, archaic, slang) (A gift of) drink money.

See all 3 meanings of beverage

Verb

bevvy (third-person singular simple present bevvies, present participle bevvying, simple past and past participle bevvied)

  1. (Ireland, UK, intransitive, slang) To get drunk.
    • Anthony and I bevvied together a few nights, but the truth is I couldn't keep up.2019, Craig Ferguson, Riding the Elephant

Forms of bevvy

Noun
pluralbevvies
Verb
third-person singular presentbevvies
present participlebevvying
past participlebevvied
pastbevvied

Origin of bevvy

Clipping of beverage + -y (diminutive suffix).

Words that rhyme with bevvy

Questions about bevvy

What does bevvy mean?
Bevvy means to get drunk.
What is bevvy the clipping of?
Bevvy is the clipping of beverage.
What part of speech is bevvy?
Bevvy is a verb.
How do you pronounce bevvy?
Bevvy is pronounced /ˈbɛvi/.
What is the past tense of bevvy?
The past tense of bevvy is bevvied.

Words near bevvy in the dictionary

  1. bevowelled
  2. bevs
  3. bevvie
  4. bevvied
  5. bevvies
  6. bevvy
  7. bevvying
  8. BEVx
  9. bevy
  10. Bew
  11. bewag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bevvy (page history and authors); beverage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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