Did you perhaps mean bevy?
Etymologies
- Shortening of beverage + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Nevertheless, serious social drinking can unite communities and so there would be a monthly bevvy session where everyone can get to know each other and let their hair down.”
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“Mike Welch, alongside a bevvy of Hollywood talent from entertainment legends like Ed Asner to relative newcomers like Katherine McPhee are lending their talent to the emotional and touching play 110 Stories.”
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“To guarantee it as my focal point, we decide to fill the boat with a bevvy of bikini-clad women.”
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“He died early in February 1980 after a bevvy session of Commonwealth proportions… but not before he bequeathed to us a mighty and inspirational body of work that speaks to ordinary people everywhere.”
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“The patchwork quilt of same-sex marital regulation has led to a bevvy of messy legal conundrums, the worst of which is what to do with the partnerships from states that led the way to allowing legal partnerships to be formed.”
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“Barry Ferguson, the former Scotland captain and one of Rangers' finest postwar midfielders, was hounded out of his country for the despicable crime of getting howling with the bevvy after a demoralising international defeat and then making a rude gesture to press photographers.”
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“This is a proper bar where you can go and have a bevvy and a dance and a laugh with your mates.”
“We were brought up into football having a bevvy, enjoying ourselves, we were out three or four times a week.”
“Reminiscent – at least after a bevvy – of EnglandNewOrder's 1990 classic World In Motion, Jackson's Mikey Matteo-produced clubby stomper even conjures up the spirit of that record's (in) famous John Barnes rap.”
“Apparently, they rocked Sheffield's world, too -- although he may be the only male on the planet willing to profess his undying love for the Fab Five (and a bevvy of other bands from that totally tubular era).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bevvy’.
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Drunkie
Haay gusy! uiI lieke twebb sit e !!
alcoholize, usquebaugh, whiffled, vinous, enology, aleconner, gambrinous, alcofrolic, perfect barf, bibulous, bleezed, brannigan and 144 more...
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Aussie: ie/ee/y/ey
Australians are in love with having an 'ee' sound on the end of their words. Typically, take a word and chop it down to the shortest it can be while still understandable, then add an 'ee' sound; sp...
brickie, telly, barbie, footy, housie, billy, bodgie, pokie, bodgy, talkie, chrissy, u-ie and 40 more...
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Awaydays (2009)
Words from a 2009 'Awaydays' film.
catch up, beaut, swill, ponce, buck, bevvy, la, divvy, baddie, noose, deffo, mooch around and 36 more...
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VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
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chiefly british
windlestraw, boffin, poppet, bloody, motorway, telly, git, tyre, windscreen, zebra crossing, panda car, lorry and 61 more...
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british colloquialisms
slang dict
alright!, arty-farty, beer o'clock, big time, bin, bits and bobs, blighty, blimey, bob's your uncle, bolivian marching..., bolshie, catch you later! and 49 more...
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vanishedone A drink, esp. beer; or, to drink - OED. Not to be confused with bevy. Oct 18, 2008