A small herring or a fish of similar type, or a fishing village in Scotland known for its fish trade.
Likely from Scottish or Northern English dialect, possibly referring to Bervie, a real fishing village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, or derived from word-roots indicating a small sea fish.
Bervie is a real place in Scotland where fishermen have worked for centuries, and the word itself got caught up in fishing vocabulary—local words often become food words!
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