different between beverage vs bevvy

English

Alternative forms

• beveridge (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bib?. Related to imbibe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bev???d?/, /?bev??d?/

Noun

beverage (countable and uncountable, plural beverages)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks, usually excluding water.
2. (Britain, slang, archaic) (A gift of) drink money.

Usage notes

More elevated than plainer drink. Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations.

Synonyms

• drink

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:beverage

Derived terms

• bevvy
• bev

Related terms

• bever

Translations

References

• Drink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• beverage at OneLook Dictionary Search
• beverage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• beverich, beverege, bevereche, beveriche, beveredg, berage, berrage, berygge

Etymology

From Old French beverage, variant of bevrage; equivalent to bever +? -age. For forms such as berage, compare Middle French berage, variant of breuvage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?v?r?a?d?(?)/, /?b?v?rad?(?)/, /?b?v?r?d?(?)/, /?b?v?rit?(?)/

Noun

beverage (plural beverages)

1. An (alcoholic) beverage or beverages.
2. Such a beverage used to close negotiations; said negotiations in themselves.
3. Hardship, pain, torment; events that are hard to handle.

Descendants

• English: beverage
• Scots: beverage, baiverage

References

• “bever??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-08.

Old French

Noun

beverage m (oblique plural beverages, nominative singular beverages, nominative plural beverage)

1. Alternative form of bevrage

English

Etymology

Clipping of beverage +? -y (diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?vi/
• Homophone: bevy

Noun

bevvy (plural bevvies)

1. (Britain, slang) Alcoholic beverage.

Verb

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

1. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To get drunk