A group or gathering of people, especially women; also used to mean a drink or beverage in British slang.
Origin uncertain, possibly from 'beverage' with informal shortening, or perhaps from a dialectal word. First recorded in 16th-century English meaning a group or flock, particularly of women or birds. The meaning shifted over time to also reference drinks.
British English has preserved this wonderful word while American English mostly abandoned it—'a bevvy of girls' sounds charmingly old-fashioned now, but the word also connects to 'beverage,' creating an accidental pun where 'bevvy' means both a group of people AND drinks to share with them.
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