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Vinony

beer

noun

  1. alcoholic drink
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbi.ɚ/ / /ˈbiː.ə/ / /ˈbɪə/ / [ˈbɪə] / /ˈbiə/

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from the place name in Devon (see Etymology 1 above); also from Old English bār (“boar”). * As a north German and Dutch surname, from beer (“bear”). See also the surnames Baer and Bahr. * As an Alemannic German surname, spelling variant of Bier (“beer”).

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English beere, equivalent to be + -er.

  1. One who is or exists.

    “That meant, among other things, that he was going to be a fast-moving doer. And even when he was three or four, it wasn't hard for me to know that this wasn't going to be easy. Because Albert was a beer. Born that way.”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *beuzą Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ Old English bēor Middle English ber English beer From Middle English ber, bere, from Old English bēor (“beer”) (Oxford OED notes: "rare, except in poetry"), from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (“beer”) (putatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewsóm), meaning “brewer's yeast”. However, also see the "beer" entry on EtymOnline (q.v.), which links a connection to monastic Vulgar Latin *biber (“a drink, beverage”), from Latin bibere (“to drink”). Samuel Johnson in his famous 18th-century A Dictionary of the English Language guessed it was from (unattested) Welsh *bîr; he distinguished it in his time from ale — the ancient usual word — by beer being older-aged and/or smaller. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bjoor (“beer”), West Frisian bier (“beer”), Dutch bier (“beer”), German Low German Beer (“beer”), German Bier (“beer”), dialectal Swedish bjor, bör (“beer”), Norwegian Nynorsk bjor (“beer”), Faroese bjór (“beer”), Icelandic bjór (“beer”).

  1. To give beer to (someone).

    “No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.”

    ““Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?””

  2. To drink beer.

    “In Japan, students on a Friday night announce “Let's beer!””