different between beverage vs snootful

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

snoot +? -ful

Pronunciation

• IPA: /?snu?tf?l/

Noun

snootful (plural snootfuls)

1. (informal) A noseful.
   • 1996, Gary Ferguson, The Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year :

     Suddenly the Soda Butte animals are getting great snootfuls of scent laid down over the past month by other wolves, which apparently leaves them with a certain longing for their own quiet, unsullied digs far to the northeast...
2. (informal) A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.
   • 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves, ch. 13:

     Only active measures, promptly applied, can provide this poor, pusillanimous poop with the proper pep. And that is why, Jeeves, I intend tomorrow to secure a bottle of gin and lace his luncheon orange juice with it liberally. . . . The truth of the matter being that he is just a plain, ordinary poop and needs a snootful as badly as ever man did.

   • 1963 Nov. 1, "Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly," Time:

     His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night.

   • 1987 May 22, John Gross, "Books of the Times" (review of The Paris Edition by Waverley Root), New York Times (retrieved 1 Nov 2011):

     [H]e recalls most of his colleagues and their rough-and-tumble exploits. Spencer Bull, for instance, who was a good reporter with one weakness . . . "He lost the ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy when he had a snootful."

Derived terms

• have a snootful

Translations